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CHAPTER Tomorrow is another day MANY OF US FEEL THAT VAGUE and risky spec- ulations do not seem to be of any help in handling our daily business. Iam making this remark because we are maintaining this panoramic view of science without subjecting it to scrutiny. We often confuse sci- ence with techno-science. If science is to give us the instruments for greater comfort, a higher quality of life and greater happiness, it must also show us the place we take in the universe and better forms of interaction between living beings. It is important to start defining the universe correctly so we know what the word “place” and even “‘liv- ing” means. Perhaps then will this happiness be more authentic and less ephemeral than what is generated by the consumption and drama society. The fall of Rome became unavoidable when bread and games had taken precedence over democracy. We know our past, or at least we think we know it. We know what our present looks like. We use it to deduce our future by defining where the present ends. Our experience does not seem to be of use to rout 2 1 wat . wo4 us. In the past fifty years, we may have experienced the most radical changes that have ever taken place in the history of mankind. How- ever, the fact that we are immersed in our society means that we do not see the upcoming confusion, for it will come. Modern science is not characterized by a smooth and continuous practice. On the contrary, it advances in often violent and radical leaps and transitions. So we understand that our daily life is bound to disap- pear shortly. The transformations experienced by the oldest generations will be experienced as even more spectacular by the youngest. Is this compatible with the scientific inertia | mentioned earlier? Yes, because 67