I dunno about that series, but the direction the people are currently going in the information/technology age is slowly killing our morals and ethics.
Only in appearance. As you go back through history,
every1 generation thought that science and/or technology is killing our morals and ethics.
More foul language/scenes are allowed on television, kids are beginning to know about sex/drugs at younger and younger ages, the middle and low class workers have to follow corporate orders to the letter or lose their job regardless of what their conscience thinks, more and more monotonous work,
I like
Flipside's response to this (which I couldn't have said better myself):
Actually, the ironic part is. people are losing their virginity at the highest ages in recorded history, less than 150 years ago, the average childbearing age of a woman was her early teens, and the minimum marriage age was 12. Drugs were also common among the children of those who could afford it, with Opium, and even Heroin being given to children under 10 to help them sleep in Victorian times. Worker Rights are far greater than even 50 years ago with levels of protection for discrimination, unlawful dismissal and even whistle-blowing, and, I believe that if you include non-religious unions, more marriages are taking place than ever before.
it's getting harder for a single person to live on his/her own,
Hmm, up until the turn of the 20th century you would have entire families living in one house (a so called
extended family. Grandparents
2, the "home owner" and all of the children
3 lived in the same house. And even at that it wasn't until the 1950s that the
nuclear family thing became popular.
marriage isn't that important as it used to be, sex is not as sacred,
- Hmm, didn't the pharaohs of Egypt have harems?
- sex? sacred? Its just something you do to have fun and make heirs.
- Didn't most if not all of the Kings and Queens of Europe have "mistresses"4.
- A monarch pretty much has to marry, but it was never for love, but as a system of negotiation and treaties. Basically the wife (usually) was the diplomat. The result was a King/Queen had his/her wife/husband and also had "mistresses"4.
- Didn't Henry VIII declare himself the head of the Church of England so that he could divorce his wife(s) because she(they) did not produce male heirs?
time is moving too fast and keeps on moving faster in which at one point the humans will be pressed hard to keep up,
Again something that every
1 generation has said. This also starting to sound like the
Luddites.
more and more "legal" drugs needed to keep people going, etc. etc. etc.
We are also living
longer on average. Keep in mind, those numbers are life expectancy from birth, that is, if the child lives past 15 (or so) those life expectancy number actually jump 20-30 years longer.
Of course, science is a factor to all the above 
Yes, science and technology is a factor, that is why we humans (most of us as least) love it so. For those that are not familiar with history (especially the study of history) there are a couple of principles that need to be kept in mind. They are:
survivor bias (or The Survivor Fallacy) and
history is "written" by the winners.
Now,
remember, just so that I am clear, I am
not saying that anyone who complains about technology and science "destroying" the "fabric" of society, is wrong or ignorant, I am just saying that, we as humans, have a very strong bias to "remember the good old days" when everything was wonderful and world was much nicer
5 then.
1) For various levels of every.
2) It was their "retirement plan". Have your children take care of you. Though it help the grandparents children in that unless the grandparent was going senile they were also able to watch the children.
3) Except for the girls who were sent off to another house as soon as possible, normally well before 18. Though the house would include the wives of the children as well, thought that depended greatly on current economic conditions (ie. some of the sons (and their wives, usually) go to the new world or to the frontier for better opportunities or just for the adventure).
4) For lack of a gender neutral word.
5) Except for the pollution, which is certainly is a concern that we in the west are learning to deal with and address (mostly through our own experience)
