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What is the relationship between technological breakthroughs and changes in social welfare programs?
 
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The relationship between technological breakthroughs and changes in social welfare programs generally follows this format: Technological advances foster changes in our lifestyles; lifestyle changes affect changes in our future social, financial, health, and recreational needs; and the latter changes largely determine what changes will be demanded in social service programs. Predicting what technological breakthroughs will occur and how these advances will affect our lifestyles is highly speculative. Numerous advances are being predicted: space travel to other planets, computers capable of thinking, chip-enhanced brains to increase intelligence, the end of aging, vaccines that will prevent most forms of cancer, artificial hearts and kidneys, vaccines to prevent HIV infection, robots that perform heart (and other) surgeries, tiny jolts of electricity to the brain to treat depression and seizures, and weather and climate control. Because there are more scientists involved in technological research and development now than at any other time in the history of civilization, future technological breakthroughs are likely to occur even more rapidly than in the past. Adjusting psychologically to rapid lifestyle changes is currently a major problem and will continue to be one of the most difficult adjustments people will have to make in future years.
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