Globalization is complete. Scientists develop new ways of treating or even curing once terminal diseases, computer science helps rising communication bridges between once inseparable worlds, people and goods need less than a day to travel from Europe to America, for example, television is broadcasting news instantly and simultaneously in various parts of the globe, cloning is not a notion made up by science fiction literature writers anymore. On the other side, the suicidal rate is growing; the global warming is an indisputable fact, terrorism is threatening the whole world, Africa...

In the end, it is a matter of ethics. Lab discoveries are good in many fields as long as scientists use them wisely. The human race evolved in the last one hundred years from the technological point-of-view more then in the last two thousand years put together, but the question is: can we also speak of a spiritual evolution?