Indeed, the rate of change will only accelerate and unfortunately, unless something changes the guiding principles, ie unless profit and power are deprecated and more lofty goals elevated, we are clearly on a path of self destruction.

The finely tuned environment we find ourselves in on Earth, which facilitates life includes finely tuned parameters which severely restrict our scope of future development to life sustaining and enhancing concepts and we are failing to realize and govern our development according to the dictates of those parameters.