I tend to agree Grady Booch's advice that "not everything we want to build, can be built. Not everything we want to build, should be built". By extension, we should not be doing everything we want to; there are moral, social and political limits. Yet the social landscape is changing.
Advancements in science and technology is changing the world we live in beyond recognition, whether we like it or not. While fundamental human values may not be at risk, social norms are. They are being challenged and tested, albeit in pockets in isolation.
It seems that notion of building blocks of society like family, community, nation etc requires a new definition in the light of new possibilities emerging; and that need to happen at global scale in a shrinking world
