Conclusions

Abstract

The main lines of the role played by science and technology in the history of civilizations up to the present time have been succinctly presented. The myth that has prevailed over all the changes in myths, religions, and religious practices and over all social and political transformations, and is now flourishing, is technology. Technology is the current magical companion of Homo sapiens, able to fulfil all his wildest dreams of well-being, entertainment, and economic prosperity and all the excesses that make life exciting and worth living.