We live in a more secure society, as far as the risks of physical violence and accidental catastrophes. Of course, there is always a risk, but the state seems to be trying to minimize it: network control, ubiquitous video surveillance, speed control, money flow control, the inevitability of punishment, etc. This is important, but it's about something else. Suppose our society today is absolutely comfortable:

• no physical risks at all
• we are completely free to express ourselves
• we can have any requests and there are means around them to satisfy them

Look around you - do you see a lot of balanced people? And happy or at least satisfied? And this despite the fact that there has been no war and famine for a long time and, it seems, is not expected! Where did so many neurotics come from? And what about the almost universal increase in mental illness over the past 15 years? Look at the statistics:

 https://gateway.euro.who.int/en/indicators/hfa_391-2410-prevalence-of-mental-disorders/

by country

https://gateway.euro.who.int/en/indicators/hfa_391-2410-prevalence-of-mental-disorders/visualizations/#id=19322&tab=table

So how is today different from yesterday? What has fundamentally changed in our civilization over the past 30 years?

• thinking humanity is very curious and inventive, we are unstoppably progressing
• we are changing the world around us, changing ourselves, together with us our society is changing and few people manage to figure out the results. Those. We live most often as Scarlet Ohara from Gone with the Wind: "... I will think about it tomorrow ..."
• the progress of science and technology is incredible. For example, military equipment in the period 1900 - 1950 did not change very significantly, only aviation took a strong step forward. Technology in the period 1970-2019 has changed incredibly and revolutionaryly in all areas of knowledge
• "crazy flow of information of information" 40-50 years ago, the stream consisted of “a bit of television, radio and a few newspapers, plus a search for interesting books,” and for the past 10 years, these are gigabytes of video, audio, graphics every day for everyone. And now we have reached a situation where everyone is in a continuous media stream and communicating via smartphone. Dependencies arise, which a rare person can control, he cannot even recognize them, and perceives them simply as a “new life style”. Previously, these were the problems of children in computer games, but now it is almost every one of us. Of course, if he goes with the flow in the mainstream and is not able to analyze, choose and resist
• hysterical and frightening scenarios produced by the information space (for example, an airplane crashed 40 years ago in a taiga. Maybe a small article in a newspaper two weeks later, and now everything is in real time with a video report from inside the airplane and video from the ground). Please note that horror films do not work so traumatically, because the beholder understands the conditional language and reality of the movie, in some cases horror films can even bring training benefits to the psyche. In the situation of online horrors from our lives, everything is real and personally tangible, therefore it is easily transferred to itself and acts destructively
• stress, stress, and more stress ... information stress, chronic stress, life in stress in modern society. However, powerful short-term stress can be an excellent stimulator and organizer of your condition. For example, getting into a dangerous situation can cause a strong need for training in the future. Moreover, a sharp explosion of adrenaline reactions is a high-energy state that will throw you ahead if you want to use it. Chronic stress depletes your brain and in a short time leads to neurosis. Please note that this is not a condition, but a diagnosis in the medical understanding of the issue

Reality: we (our brain) do not have time and loses so far in attempts to adapt and this must be clearly understood. Apparently, our children and then grandchildren will be able to adapt to the incredible speed of development of computer science, just as generations before that were able to adapt to the internal combustion engine, electricity, radio, television, etc.

However, today there are quite noticeable trends in the separation of people into flows in relation to the harsh influence of an information avalanche:

• highly effective and successful specialists with an encyclopedic mindset who use the maximum of new opportunities in the broad sense of the word, practitioners as such are rare occurance. They connect colossal information and network memory powers to their brains and become the best reference points for everyone. This is the level of true developmental geniuses. To get into this group you need to be born for this. This layer, if it has medical problems, is only the oddities that usually accompany talented people
• intellectual elite, I think this is no more than 1-2%. They connect colossal information and network memory powers to their brains and become the best reference points for everyone. This is the level of real scientists. This layer is very resistant.
• highly effective successful narrow specialists who, using the same opportunities, will sharply increase their professional effectiveness. This is probably 3-7% in a developed society. This layer of people will become the most elite highly paid layer in society, has already become. He is very stable
• the philistine level of low efficiency, which fundamentally does not change in the approach to its development. This is the bulk of the population, I think 60-80%, it’s not only workers, this will include the majority of office and engineering staff, including those with higher education. They will also use new information techniques and will certainly grow in their professions, as new technologies will drag them along. Unbelievable possibilities of consumption will open for them, because they are the main target of marketing, respectively, they will receive a lot of mechanisms for obtaining satisfaction in everyday life. There will be a serving on a “saucer with a blue border,” actually now it all works, just buy it. I think they themselves will limit the depth of study and the speed of development, because development in the new conditions will require them to be practically impossible for them. And before that, they had enough life at the level of adaptation. Rapid development is too energy consuming for them. Unfortunately, this group will be greatly reduced, as in the conditions of modern development, the demand for them will be significantly reduced. And what to do with them? The second industrial revolution with the transition to digital technology in production is in full swing. Enterprises have been reducing the number of employees for a long time and now there are a lot of opportunities for this and there are more of them. At some point, half will hang in the air. It will be soon. This is a very risky layer with a high risk of developing neurotic conditions
• turned off and self-insulated under the pressure of a new information field. There are more of them too. Look around, grown-up children who are hiding in games, infantilism that does not require family and partnerships, unwillingness to learn and move forward to adulthood, etc. There are more of them and the pseudo-humanity of society contributes to this, because reduces requirements, feeds and does not oblige anyone to anything. Especially in countries with a high level of social support. Now it is 7-10%, and there will be even more. Many of the previous philistine layer will fall into it in the future. This is also a very risky layer, because Alienation from the holiday of life can completely deprive them of motivation and drop them to the very bottom, including drug addicts and asocial criminal groups. The risk of depression, obsessive and suicidal conditions. Low energy but very deep neurotic disorders
• accelerated development will lead to the fact that the division into those “who are on the train” and those “who are behind” will become practically insurmountable. For example, the difference between the development of Japan and a country from the middle of Africa is a lag forever

My observations and thoughts are oversimplified. Of course, some social elevators and transition opportunities will remain, but your brain's ability to learn in new conditions will be a pass.

Just like in the Gospel parable of the marriage feast: “... for there are many called, but few chosen” (Matthew 22: 1.14, Luke 14: 16.24) .... only now we are talking not about spiritual concepts, but rather about practical approaches in our daily life.

It's not so scary, there is a lot of positive:

• boys and men grown on computer games, or as it is now customary to say eSports, this is the future of modern armies. Combat drones of all kinds are very effective and their effectiveness is growing all the time. We need operators with highly developed fine motor skills that are adapted specifically to this perception and work in war
• many timid people overcome difficult for them personal communication thresholds and communicate online, gradually opening up to personal communication
• everyone now has access to the internet has the opportunity to explore the planet, even without the means to travel
• information opportunities for those who need it, who know how and want to learn become incredibly effective and unlimited (except for the availability of electricity and internet access), the speed of learning and self-learning is constantly growing with increasing abilities for informational absorption
• the number of independent brains that are littered with official propaganda is constantly growing, they do not watch TV and determine their own program of action. They will change our world order in the near future, they are power. They can react quickly in the virtual world and just as quickly gather to react in the physical world. They are more difficult to deceive, they have learned a lot themselves and learn constantly
• "toxic" and inadequate people became better visible, because there is practically no censorship (or moderators are late), so these people are not afraid to publish their thoughts, write in the comments for what, in a real situation, they would get face off from the interlocutor or be put on trial

And therefore, it makes sense for each of us to look for new rules for ourselves, if there is no desire to be a victim:

• get used to observing, reflecting on what you’ve seen and making logical conclusions
• develop requirments to everything that occurs along the road, speed and quality are not always synonymous, most often they try to quickly sell you what you do not need. High selective activity is characteristic of intellect, low selectivity is characteristic of enslaved mind
• the head is not a garbage can, filter the information and choose only what you need, clearly define what is for self-development and what is for entertainment
• in communication on the internet, avoid simple chatter for the sake of chatter, if you appreciate yourself highly, then sending out photos with “cakes in a cafe” or other meaningles information depletes your mind and wastes your time
• do not obey the patterns and do not do automatic actions, “being in trend” is a nice combination of words, but it means, first of all, paying for everything that makes up a “trend” and does not always include benefits for you. The mainstream is not always good and not for everyone. Remember that the exit on the motorway implies movement in the general rhythm and according to its laws, and whether this is suitable for your “airplane or bicycle” must be decided independently. There will certainly be a U-turn on the motorway in the other direction, but in thirty kilometers!
• deal with the inability to comply with the "trends", there are more and more of them, you need to keep up, run, grab. Mistakes in dealing with this can be the source of your neuroticism.
• in the modern world, a lot of technologies are intended only for making money and the object of this violence is you and the neurosis will create for you, because This is the main method of creating a buyer. Do not be mistaken about the goodwill in the "... you deserve it ...", "... better for a man or a woman there is no ...", etc. this is not about the benefit "for you"! This is about your money "for them", this hunt never stops. Please understand that a calm and balanced person is not needed by the modern market, and neurotic and tantrums are needed, they will buy a lot in order to calm down and will not just buy, but will constantly chase what they want, along with buying related items. Decide who you are for yourself, and whether you want to obey the manipulations with your consciousness?
• try to track your addictions, this is a rather complicated practice that requires the skill of introspection, but it’s worth spending time to at least attempt to introspect on addictive personality traits 
• you need to learn now and always, without pause , increasing one's competence is necessary and very fulfilling. It is even better if you can increase your own competence in several areas. This will not only expand horizons, but also increase your overall security, as will give the opportunity to maneuver. A reserve profession or an additional professional skill has not harmed anyone yet
• find yourself a spiritual sanctuary for your mind and soul, if you are religious perhaps attending church can be a very good. If you don’t have a religious inclinations, your sanctuary could be your love of music or art. Even if you do not fit into either category, constant visits to nature will help you find what ancients called "place of power". 
• be sure to try to find a way to physically "unload" through excersise or sports, “to shoot from head to toe” is a good technique, there are a lot of possibilities. Powerful outdoor activities and communication with nature (and if you can also turn off GSM-data on phone) will be an excellent rehabilitation for your mind
• acceleration leads to a lack of time to think about serious decisions, get used to urgent issues to take a break and use it as a constant practice
• the development of analytical thinking multiplied by intuition, if only for brief periods of time. But it’s difficult and requires constant mindfulness and training, even if you have the ability

In general - nothing new, you yourself should know all this, it's just a reminder just in case.