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Some nations were enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Yet the disparity between rich and poor individuals, rich and poor nations, was growing ever wider. Technological innovation was bringing dozens of everyday miracles to market each year. Yet the world faced serious problems which seemed The technology which epitomized the early 20th cen- impervious to any technological solution. The tech- to strike the world at any time. Global climate change, long nology most characteristic of the late 20th century was the feared, was slowly becoming obvious.
Biologists report- digital computer, foundation of the networked societies of ed a mass vanishing of species, the likes of which had the future and source of unparalleled prosperity.
