Consider how life in our own times is similar to and different from the modernist period. do you think we live in stable or uncertain times? how might the times we live in affect our literature and art?

We definitely live in uncertain times, i don't think the world has ever really been "stable". Life itself is completely unpredictable. There are stable days, stable moments but never just a stable time period. There are too many corruptions and disasters in the world to consider any time a "stable time". Until the world has complete and total peace, there will not be any stability. As long as the world has terrorism, unstable economies, war, nothing can be described as stable. The times we live in today, more and more art as well as literature are becoming things done by technology. Its not like the things you see in history with Beethoven, Charles Dickens, and many other great writers. There are just too many new concepts. The same goes for art, paper is starting to become replaced by technology little by little but faster and faster.