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"The first steam locomotive, manufactured in 1825, reached a maximum speed of twenty kilometers, and the great sailing ships of the time sailed less than half this speed. The man had to wait until the 1880s to get, thanks to a more advanced steam locomotive, and the incorporation of women into public life, the speed of one hundred fifty kilometers per hour. The human race took millions of years to achieve this mark. However, fifty-eight years were enough to quadruple this limit, since, in 1938, the aviators exceeded the 600 kilometers per hour barrier. After another twenty years, this limit doubled. And, in the sixties, rocket planes reached speeds close to 6,000 kilometers, and space capsules circled the Earth at more than 35,000 kilometers per hour. The line that, in a graph, represented the progress of the last generation would come out vertically from the page. The same accelerating tendency is evident if we examine the distances traveled, the heights reached, the minerals extracted or the explosive forces unleashed. The guideline, here and in a thousand other statistical series, is absolutely clear and unmistakable. Centuries and millennia pass and, suddenly, in our time, the borders burst to pieces and there is a sudden impulse forward. " Alven Toffler, The Shock of the Future. And this is what this storm is about, so that we can enjoy all the sophisticated life that derives from this evolutionary leap. We must share the technological advances achieved so that we can access good living without destroying the planet: more public transport and less private vehicles. , more dry cleaners, laundries, restaurants, canteens, libraries, video libraries, Infocentros and less well-equipped houses. Let the street be everyone's house and not the place of fear. That sharing is the secret of LIVINGAdditional Products