This is what I'm most pissed about. When I was young we were promised focking flying cars by this point in time. Where are my focking flying cars!?
Since the general vibe of this thread has a negative tilt I'll add my bright and uplifting obiter dictum..
I think the planet has far too many humans living on it for the amount of available resources. The number of people continues to rise and the amount of raw resources continues to plummet. Therefore, it is a simple conclusion that at some point, a hundred years sounds plausible at the current rate of expansion, somewhere someplace the pressures of such a situation will bring out the worst in mankind and/or the unseen biological heebie-geebies which will be primed for mutation. Yes, it's a very general sort of sentiment but there is a very real truth at its core. I think man's biggest and most difficult hurdle is greed (which can be very easily linked to ego, but I think greed specifically is the most damaging culprit).
Well, on the bright side, population growth rates are going down; at the moment, Europes population is actually going down. And perhaps us running out of oil will lead to companies finally replacing it with more "green" type energies, but that might just be me hoping
But I do see your point in the whole greed thing. To tell the truth, only time can tell what will happen in the future; you can only hope that we will overcome. Of course our flaws like greed will likely always exist, but there is hope that we can overcome our more immediate hurdles. You can always trust mankind to perservere, for better or for worse.
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