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– If I had to summarize the twentieth century, I would say that it nurtured the greatest hopes in humanity ever and destroyed all illusions and ideals.
Yehudi Menuhin (musician – Britain)
– From a technological point of view, I highlight the development of electronics among the most important developments in the twentieth century. From an ideological point of view, I highlight the change from a relatively rational and scientific view of things to a non-rational and less scientific view.
Raymond Firth (anthropologist – Britain)
– The century shows us that the prevalence of the ideals of justice and equality is always ephemeral, but it also shows that we manage to maintain freedom, that we can always start over from the beginning […] There is no reason to despair, even under the most hopeless situations.
Leo Valiani (historian – Italy)

I had a hard time finding a preface that would be suitable for a technical article and at the same time be able to accompany questions such as whether humanity can solve the problems it faces and go further. The predictions about what the landscape will look like in the future, which has already become unrecognizable from the tectonic vibrations that shook the short Twentieth Century and are shaking the newborn Twenty-first, are in danger of being characterized as prophecies that will need a Messiah for their confirmation. On the other hand, the dominant discourse is wagging its finger at us in the days we are experiencing: “Be careful because there are worse possibilities, as History has shown…”.
But even knowledge of History here does not help us derive logical answers for our course in the future.
We know that behind the dim veil of our ignorance and the uncertainty that grips us about the specific outcomes of developments, the historical forces that shaped our century are still at work.
We live in a world that has been conquered, uprooted and transformed by the titanic economic and technical-scientific process of capitalist development, which has dominated the last two to three centuries. We know that we have entered a period of prolonged “crisis”, which threatens to become permanent as a peculiar state of emergency. Regulations concerning the smooth reproduction of capital are considered a “national necessity”, while regulations concerning social needs lose all bargaining value, in a more general environment of the abolition of any concept of political cost and are sacrificed on the altar of “crisis”.
In essence, the provisions concerning trade union and social protection are suspended until we return to some "economic normality", in practice indefinitely. The emergence of aspects of "emergency" in Greece and Europe constitutes a pilot program for all countries of developed capitalism.
It is imperative that rationality and the objective reality of our world prevail in an era when repressed irrationality can lead to incalculable, brutal expressions.
In the second decade of the 21st century, Western societies are once again facing economic problems, which lead to collective oppression similar to that of World War II. Fascist ideology is gaining ground again, projecting the same content: a theory attractive to the oppressed collective subconscious, but directing the instinctive violent reaction of the wronged masses not towards the true culprits, but towards the demonized, easy target at the time (the immigrant, the different, the foreigner). This time we will learn from the experiences of history, so that the mistakes of the past are not repeated.
And we will also learn from the language of Science and Statistics, which is certainly objective.
A big question looms in our days: After all these extremely bad events and happenings, where is our world ultimately headed? Is it getting better or worse?
Our world is getting better and better, and we must admit this and preserve it.
The following comes from an article by Dylan Matthews published on March 20, 2015 on Vox.com and the translation of which is my own. 
By Dylan Matthews on March 20, 2015
“The press – and people in general – have a strong negative bias. Bad economic news gets more coverage than good news. Negative experiences affect people more, and for longer, than positive ones. So it’s natural for things like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or the rise of ISIS or the Ebola outbreak to weigh on us more than, say, the fact that extreme poverty has been halved since 1990, or that life expectancy is rising, particularly in poor countries. But it’s worth paying a little attention to the latter factors. The world is getting much, much better, on a whole range of dimensions.
Let's mention some of them:
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