To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, we are neither improving nor getting worse. Every time we better ourselves at doing good, we also better ourselves at doing evil. The steady forces on both ends are kept constantly in balance.

So you can say that while we get better technologically, we lose part of ourselves in other ways. But it's not all doom and gloom. The things we get better at help us to recognize our failures, if we learn to listen. We just need to pay attention to these things.

And lifespans are getting shorter? How so? Modern medicine has made lifespans much longer