In the year 2000, advanced scientific knowledge and advanced technological change has had a significant effect on the way we live compared to our ancestors who lived in the year 1000. Today we live in an industrial and technological society versus the primarily agricultural society of the year 1000. We enjoy mass produced consumer products and a standard of living undreamed of in the year 1000. But perhaps most significant, in the year 2000 we live in an information age. …showed first 75 words of 868 total…

…showed last 75 words of 868 total…than the days of old. In the year 1000 people faced short life expectancies, primitive living conditions, and had limited knowledge of life beyond their small villages. Although there is evidence of free enterprise and trade, the economy was primarily agricultural. In the year 2000 we are experiencing unheard of prosperity driven by technology. We live in an age where knowledge is power, and because of advanced communications, the average person is becoming more and more empowered.