I'm a geek, I'm optimistic, I like mixing technology with daily life. Why deny it, that's who I am. I also have a love of trying to know real reality. So when I recently read an article on what the next 10 years may hold, I found the incredible optimism profoundly disturbing!
The web page is here (and archived here in case it disappears). Seven futurists present their vision for the next 10 years. The geek in me loves this, what a great future they protray. Consider a sample of their projectrions:
Where are these Futurists living? In their imagination probably. Not one of these futurists seemed to have factored in any of the following:
All of this is, of course, underpinned by and implemented through human nature. Can anyone persuade me that in 6000 years of recorded history we are growing less selfish, less greedy, less violent? All these futurist's projections may come true - they are not unreasonable in technological terms. But all that this will do, as best I can see, is offer new opportunities and means to continue in our persistant nature of self interest at the expense of others. This optimism about our technology-dependent future is highly exciting, and deeply depressing BECAUSE it ignores the nature of humans. I'm personally glad when I remember this life is not normality; this is a broken picture of who we were intended to be. The religious institutions of the world universily claim we can make it better - except Christ who says we can't, and won't.
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