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The end of the XXth century and the beginning of the XXIth announce, we believe, huge changes in the possible impact of our species on the world, including itself, and consequently on our understanding of the world, and of ourselves.
Such changes, barring unforeseen accidents, will reach their full impact potential in the first decades of this century, and continue, with constant acceleration, in the following decades. This means that a child who is today ten years old will be able to, at the end of his life, see our conception of the universe and of human beings with the same view, interested but with a global difficulty to understand, that we have of ancient and feudal societies.

To begin, we have to bear in mind that, if no action is taken, such prodigious changes will only be understandable, and manageable, for a very small minority of persons, who belong to socially and intellectually privileged population layers of the Western world, and in particular of the United States. Moreover, all advances will be discussed and communicated in English. In some, but not all cases, Europe will be able to stay afloat. All other persons, as well as all other living beings, will be affected by changes, but will have to passively accept them, in some cases for the best as far as they are concerned, but probably more often for the worse. At the same time, it will be possible to devise new policies aimed at sharing and balancing the access to knowledge and power. It will also be necessary to establish a more balanced distribution of power which, despite the declarations of intent of politicians, does not appear close at this moment.

Such warnings must not lead to a negative or "catastrophist" judgment of the coming changes - which will take place unstoppably anyway, as far as we can foresee, due to the selective advantages that they will bring to those who will exploit them. On the contrary, such changes should be considered by everyone, and especially by young people, as something that will open incredibly exciting and pr

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