I know that every generation thinks it is special just because it is alive and hence uniquely placed, reflectively, between the dead and the unborn. So I agree that it is important to keep things in perspective. However, sometimes it is 06 December 1773 and you are in Boston, or it is 04 July 1789 and you are in Paris. What I stress in this book is that sometimes it is a new millennium, and you are in the infosphere.
I assume that salvation will be brought about, insofar as it ever is, using the tools available, even as the same ones destroy us.
From Luciano Floridi's book The Fourth Revolution:
I assume that salvation will be brought about, insofar as it ever is, using the tools available, even as the same ones destroy us.
I hope you find it.