kruger4 wrote:
Note: this is completely unrelated to aspergers.
I for a matter a fact look really forward to the future, I'm not saying this in a general sense. Obviously poverty, wars, people dying, ... will continue for as long as humans live, that's not what this is about.
I'm talking mostly about technology, I feel that technology is going to make our lives so much easier on different aspects. There's the fact that new medicine will continue to be invented and old medicine will continue to be upgraded. It's almost certain that there's gonna be a cure for cancer, Aids and other horrible diseases in the near future. Stem cell research is also looking very promising or even the regeneration of lost issue etc....
Work will be so much easier because of new inventions, new techniques, better looking tools, better looking desks,... For example, my parents used to do a desk job and their work place was pretty sad. It looked so old, their desks were so ugly, their seats uncomfortable, their PC couldn't do crap, there was no airco. How could anyone look forward to going to work. When I look at the workplace of today everything is so modern and so good looking, chairs are made to prevent backpain and are comfortable, Pc's can do much more, etc... I would gladly go to work just because the setting of the workplace is so easy on the eyes.
Then there's the home equipment or even the houses. Houses these days look much more modern, seats are more comfortable, I'm not gonna go into much more detail here but you know what I'm getting at.
Cars keep getting better looking, they have more features than ever, they're more safe, etc...
I think I made my point, I think it's a bright future ahead of is and it's only going to get better the longer we live.
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But I do understand your viewpoint. I even have it, although less than I used to. I think humans will muddle through as we always have and keep thinking up fixes to whatever our latest problems are. I don't think there will be a shiny utopia. But neither do I think there will be a grim dystopia. In my lifetime (44 years and counting) there have been a combination of amazing technological inventions and heartening sociological changes that give me hope. There have also been horrors that make me despair. But humans always seem to pull through. Two steps forward. One step back.