There's never been a simpler time...
“There’s never been a simpler time. Never. In all of human history, everything has always been as complex as it is right now. The people change. The technology changes. But the … the forces at work, whatever it is that drives us to be human, that’s always the same.”
— Micah Brack to Zefram Cochrane in Federation by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens