New Age of Anxiety Emerges in Tandem With Rapid Pace of Technological Change

As in the Middle Ages, a gulf is widening between the world we have known and an emerging world we do not yet understand.

In recent days, a dancing robot ran amok in a restaurant at Cupertino, California, an airplane hit a firetruck at LaGuardia Airport, and President Trump shifted his two-day ultimatum to Iran to a five-day ceasefire on energy infrastructure for negotiations.

Vladimir Putin also offered to stop sharing intelligence with the Iranians if Mr. Trump stopped sh…