Things That Give You Hope For Our Future

There's too much negativity going on out there for me. We're going to die from polluted water, global warming, world war, total economic collapse, decreased fertility rates or whatever. In fact, as I type this, I'm surprised that I'm still breathing.

So what are some of the things that give you hope for a better future?

Here are some of mine:

• The US debt (because eventually the US simply won't have the resources to fund its military adventures)
• Scientific discoveries
• Young people (even if they do seem to be a bit socialist)
• The human ability to muddle through unfamiliar territory

It's far from a complete list, so give me your ideas.

 

Rising standard of living globally

 

The negative things are on the internet and when you watch the news.

I dont hear any of this shit in real life

 

Young kids today don’t bully kids with disabilities as much as they used to. Actually, they are quite accepting and will stand up for kids with disabilities—and a lot of the typical kids will go out of their way to be friends and help their disabled peers. Much different than when I was in school.

 

This just makes me think you associate with a narrow range of people types and the internet is the only place you associate with people different from you.

 

So, do you know people in real life that talk like they do here? This year especially seems to be exclusively guys here with the angry all the time persona

Couldnt imagine anyone in real life carrying on like they do, friends wouldnt last very long

 

The first integrated circuits were introduced in the early sixties, and Moore's Law instantly became famous. Even using back of the envelope calculations, it was obvious that within half a century the entire world would change. They were off by 15 years, due to an unexpected physical limitation that forced everyone to convert to much more complicated multicore processing. It has taken that long for them to figure out the mathematics for how to do multicore processing any serious justice when talking about supercomputers, with the newest ones having roughly the capacity of a human brain. Within twenty years, even conventional computers should be a million times more powerful, but the evidence indicates that the capacity of the human brain is what is required to make more sense out of the world around us. Already, they are starting to put the pieces together and figure out how to use supercomputers to describe everything around us in terms of chaotic dynamics and fuzzy logic, and what's been called the new Manhattan Project has ensued, with countries around the globe rushing to create the first quantum computers with roughly 300 qubits, or enough to describe the entire universe in detail, because they are factorial, meaning it would have almost half that many decimal places or 150 zeros.

Over the course of my own research, contrary to conventional wisdom, I discovered that life is more like assembling a puzzle than figuring out how anything works. The more powerful the computers become, the more they can see the big picture, and the easier it is to fill in all the gaps, and the same goes for the human mind and brain. People can act indignant or whatever, but our logic is ruled by our emotions, and the more we can bring the big picture into focus, the more silly a lot of our rationalizations become. We have the ability to deny reality all we want, but reality always has the last word, because the self-evident truth cannot be denied forever, and our technology itself is becoming an answer to its own problems. Yang must transform into yin, and the meek must inherit the earth, not because I say so, but because it is a law of nature, and this is our century.

All of the turmoil in the world today can be compared to a pot of water boiling or going through puberty, and reflect the fact a great transformation is occurring, and the human species is about to mature. Dogs gotta be dogs, monkeys gotta be monkeys, and people have to become more self-aware, whether they want to be or not.

 

The younger generation, I guess they're gen z...people who are teens now basically, frequently impress me. They're very aware. When I was a teen I didnt have a clue, whereas today's teens want to change the world. And I hope they do.
And I agree with what YFM said too, they're very educated on mental/physical disabilities as well as mental illness and very accepting of differences in their peers.

 

Young people, I agree, We have been lucky enough to live in progressive cities with liberal colleges since 1978 and I see young people living more in harmony with our earth and Creator, as well as undoing some of our societies past transgressions.

 

Kemba Walker
Enes Kanter
Grant Williams
and Tacko Fall

 

Babyboom generation dying off

 

The Japanese and workaholic white populations are dying off faster.

 

Hey! I'm dying as fast as I can... Now, get off my lawn.

 

Shoot first, ask questions later, but only if they're on your property!~

 

people realizing that the human species would not survive if it were the only species on the planet.

decreases in human fertility and ideological prejudice are both good things, if either of them actually exist.

the causes of pollution are matters of choice.
they're not about 'the sky is falling' they're about 'stop stabbing ourselves in the ass'.

 

I think that most recently I had faith in our future when the republicans on capitol hill asked the president to not reduce or eliminate our presence in Syria. I could see that they had the interest of our allies at heart and that is meaningful to me.

 

i think they're starting to realize they've been jerked around like the rest of us.
its taken them a bit longer then everyone else to figure this out,
but yah, if they're starting to, that is a good sign.

 

Conservatives are patriarchal, and as out of touch with reality as they can be, they consider it their job to protect those weaker than themselves who they see as within their power to protect. They will ruthlessly attack the innocent as well, but there can be no doubt Syria is a total humanitarian disaster.

 

You think? I see it more as them maintaining the status quo of the industrial military complex