ABSTRACT
The human species has lived for most of its time in simple hunter-gatherer societies. Agrarian societies developed less than 5,000 years ago and it is only in the last 200 years that a ‘modern’ industrial society has come into being. Today this industrial society is rapidly transforming into a global information society. Technology is a driving force in societal evolution and is highly intertwined with wider modernization (Lenski, Nolan, and Lenski 1995).
