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This article is a reproduction of parts of a chapter from the Ronald C. Pine book :"Science and the Human Prospect".
"...Except for power failures, few people in the developed world know what it was like for most of the human species every night, throughout 99 percent of our history, to face the blackness of space and its sea of stars alone without the reassuring lights of civilization. We live in a special time. Never before has such intense, radical technological change taken place. In this chapter we will see that there has been another radical change: Something very strange has happened to reality along the way. .."