Today our outlook is starkly different from a century ago but perhaps a bit more consonant with reality. Will terror, global warming, or resurgent populism do to the current era of life - advancing globalization what World War I did to the previous one?
فَمِنَ ٱلْمُسْتَحِيلِ نِسْيَانُ نَظْرَةِ ٱلنَّاسِ فِي تِلْكَ ٱلسَّنَوَاتِ ٱلَّتِي سَبَقَتِ ٱلْحَرْبَ ٱلْعَالَمِيَّةَ ٱلْأُولَى ،‏ حِينَ بَدَا أَنَّ مُسْتَقْبَلَ ٱلْجِنْسِ ٱلْبَشَرِيِّ لَا يَعُوقُهُ عَائِقٌ وَلَا تَحُدُّهُ حُدُودٌ .‏