3rd millennium
It will be the third millennium. This is a major event due to its uniqueness for the contemporary world, for all societies and all men who have the privilege of experiencing it. It should be remembered that the transition from the first millennium to the second coincided with the splendor and scientific and technical progress of Arab-Muslim civilization. The arts, architecture, mathematics, chemistry, medicine and philosophy have made enormous advances thanks to the dissemination of this universal heritage resulting from the fallout of Muslim civilization which was then at its peak. At the end of the last century of the second millennium, an objective look at the evolution of humanity can only admire the scale and speed of the transformations with which knowledge, technologies and human living conditions have evolved.
It is an understatement to say that during this last century, knowledge and the arts have reached qualitatively considerable stages that men of science themselves qualify as far superior to all the discoveries accumulated so far.
The end of the present millennium will have been marked by the speed and mobility of ideas and people and the mass production of goods and services intended for the multiple needs of men.
Indeed, recent technological revolutions such as telecommunications, transport, computing, cybernetics, genetics, biology have modified distances, economic and political issues and even major ethical and moral values.
All these immense achievements and appreciable discoveries have not prevented wars, famines, diseases, poverty and above all the great disparities between peoples and nations.
Furthermore, the common good of all men, the earth, has been attacked for too long by all kinds of pollution, threatening the ecological balance of the planet and economic expansion, factors of social and cultural progress. Water, air, soil and subsoil have all experienced large-scale depredations which require men to rethink their relationship with nature and the creation of wealth.
It is an understatement to say that during this last century, knowledge and the arts have reached qualitatively considerable stages that men of science themselves qualify as far superior to all the discoveries accumulated so far.
The end of the present millennium will have been marked by the speed and mobility of ideas and people and the mass production of goods and services intended for the multiple needs of men.
Indeed, recent technological revolutions such as telecommunications, transport, computing, cybernetics, genetics, biology have modified distances, economic and political issues and even major ethical and moral values.
All these immense achievements and appreciable discoveries have not prevented wars, famines, diseases, poverty and above all the great disparities between peoples and nations.
Furthermore, the common good of all men, the earth, has been attacked for too long by all kinds of pollution, threatening the ecological balance of the planet and economic expansion, factors of social and cultural progress. Water, air, soil and subsoil have all experienced large-scale depredations which require men to rethink their relationship with nature and the creation of wealth.