Question

how have recent advances in science and technology shaped both our attitudes and what is likely for us in the future

Answer 1

Recent scientific and technological advances has made our attitudes more accepting: We are less likely to find something improbable if we have other similar experiences. In the future, more scientific advances are likely to happen.

Answer 2

Science has shaped our attitude towards many different things considering how we now behave by gathering in cities thanks to agriculture or even how we were able to defend ourselves from predators because we had the necessary tools. Many humans adopt night behaviors because we now have artificial light.

Now, the more we go into the future, the more automatized and more connected things are. Jobs and difficulties keep disappearing and new things keep being invented that make human life unbelievably easier when we compare our current state to our natural one.

The near future is already a time of inter connectivity, automation, and new levels of scientific wonders that people from decades ago could only dream about.

It is possible that we might enter an era of transhumanism and that thanks to the inter-web and possibility of being directly connected to technology, the world will change again to an unrecognizable state the same way that agriculture changed the behavior of the early men.