There is, of course, no legitimate branch of science that enables us to predict the future accurately. Yet the degree of change in the world is so overwhelming and so promising that the future, I believe, is far brighter than anyone has contemplated since
the end of the Second World War.
Adapted from Allan E. Goodman, A Brief History of the Future: The United States in a Changing World Order
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翻译一下这个句子,在说说---------Yet the degree of change in the world is so overwhelming and so promising that the future,---------这里的that是什么意思??表示同位语从句,还是什么从句,能再给我举个例子吗?谢谢。