Abstract
Our lives began to change very quickly and not for the better. All sorts of wiseacres can't really say anything about the near future, except for obvious nonsense, based on nothing, although our civilization on Earth is not the first, and these past civilizations, alas, have gone into oblivion. What happened, is happening now and will happen in the near future is briefly outlined below, and in more detail in the works listed in the bibliography.
The civilization that currently exists on Earth is everywhere technological in nature, as all new technologies are quickly picked up by the population of regions even remote from the centers of civilization.
Similar civilization, of course, is developing with acceleration. This is easily seen in practice by the speed of introducing into the economy first steam engines, then railways, ships. telegraph, electricity, automobiles, airplanes, nuclear power, computers, the Internet, mobile communications. The time intervals between the widespread use of these novelties became shorter and shorter.
At present, universal digitalization and the widespread use of artificial intelligence and robotics are on the threshold.