It's hard to predict the future and get everything right.  For all we know an asteroid could strike the planet and destroy us all on the spot.  For some reason it's easier for me to imagine a futuristic world of tomorrow, much different from our own, than it is to swallow the harsh truth of the actual reality we currently live in.  In part I feel we are living in a sort of dark age.  We are governed in this age by the opinions of loud speaking know-it-all types rather than by logic and rational thought.  I call myself a futurist in part because I spend a lot of time thinking about how technology and science could eventually solve all the terrible afflictions we currently face as a species and they are what I believe will pull us out of the modern dark age. ...continue reading →