Does anyone really look forward to the future?

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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.

That is an interesting outlook. Good for you. (I mean that sincerely, not sarcastically.)
I'd like to believe that everything will get better, but the more I learn about history, the more I feel like we, as humans, never change.

Personally, I have trouble keeping up with the present. XD
And I haven't seen a better looking car than my old 1988 BMW, may she RIP.

Yes, especially after my interest in Michio Kaku began.

I am neutral about technology. For every problem it solves, it seems to make something equally detrimental. I quite like the Amish approach; they assess the pros and cons of a technology before they embrace it and embed it into their culture. I read about it somewhere.

As for cosmetic values... I think modern things generally look more unpleasant than they used to. Affordable cars are getting more and more characterless each year. Very generic.

I look forward to seeing what TV, computers and the Internet are going to look like in the future. At the same time, I'm more Past minded than I am present minded or future minded. I like the cars and technology of the 60s.

the terrors of the past are collectively chasing us all into the future, only some folk are confused like stressed-out horses who run back into the flaming soon-to-be-history barn. i myself have been timidly backing into the future for as long as i can remember.

I have fantasies about what WP will be like in the future.

I hope that I didn't offend anybody.