It’s almost an absurd question. Smartphones have put the world’s knowledge at our fingertips. Passenger jets fly us to the other side of the planet in a day. Soon AI will relieve us from all of life’s humdrum tasks.
But in just the space of a few decades, phenomena like slavery, anxiety, mysticism and terror have made alarming comebacks.
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