Drucker on seeing us today from the distant future

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time--literally--substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

-- Peter Drucker, Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself, quoted by Marshall Goldsmith in The Earned Life, p. 54