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Great Events Of Our Century Vol. 5, The (1999)
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Legacy Our children will inherit a legacy form a century of dramatic change - a legacy generated by a hundred years of technological and political hyper-activity. But it has also been a world where change constancy have been paradoxical themes.
The beneficiaries of this legacy will undoubtedly gain from the technological revolution, but they will also have to endure the consequences of our mistakes and follies.
An ever expanding population will be forced to confront a shrinking world where our multiple identities and loyalties to family, community, nation and planet will vie with each other for a balanced co-existence.
The manipulation and conquest of our environment, our exploitation of new systems of communication, our increased understanding of our psychological make-up, and the increased sophistication of our weapons of destruction only go to highlight one alarming fact: for all the obvious changes that our surroundings have undergone one thing hasn't changed - man himself.
Into The Unknown Since the dawn of time our insatiable curiosity has made us want to know more about our universe, our planet and ourselves. If a frontier is there we must cross it, if a mountain is there we must climb it; we must do it more quickly, with added danger, forever testing our strength, our endurance and our ingenuity.
"Into The Unknown" meets those indomitable heroes who, however awesome the task, have always been ready to meet it, and tries to understand why challenging the unknown is so important to us.
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