One of my first exposures to the wonders of this technological age came to me as a young lad at a national exposition.
Elements of the age-to-be were projected. Television and large-scale air transport were suggested, and we boys even discussed the possibilities of a man on the moon. This, however, was all so remote from my experience that I didn't give much thought to it beyond the excitement of the day. Certainly the negative aspects of the technological future didn't occur to me: pollution, overcrowding, and the threat of nuclear warfare. The technological age has produced remarkable achievements as well as completely new problems. Individuals are experiencing totally new challenges.
We need to understand the age in which we live. "The broadcast powers of evil so conspicuous to-day," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes, "show themselves in the materialism and sensualism of the age, struggling against the advancing spiritual era."Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 65;
