Or there were dystopian futures taking place around now, with corporate controlled police states and tracking chips in your head. Shouldn’t we all have second homes on the moon by now and have eliminated all disease? When I grew up there were movies with 20 with idyllic futures filled with doors that go “psssst” and societies without poverty. It doesn’t feel like that though doesn’t it?Ģ017 kind of seems like we should all be flying our cars to work.
Our world has many problems but on the whole it is still the best time ever to be a human being. Syria and Iraq are still disastrous with perhaps a million people in the region killed over the past decade. There are still famines, wars and rebellions but direct conflict between nations has been reduced. Government accountability has on the whole improved and rebel wars that killed millions across the ’60s through the 2010s have subsided. Even for the several billion of us left behind, who have tenuous access to basic necessities such as drinking water and medical aid, this age is more secure than previous eras. There are fewer wars and fewer deaths from crime than at any time before. With increased access to water, electricity, communication, sanitation, food and education this age affords us now more opportunities than any other.
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With more free time and more wealth and more things. We are likely to live longer, be healthier and have easier lives than ever before. At the same time, this is the safest time in history to be a human being.
Sometimes it can feel like the end times, the Weimar Republic with talk radio and tweets. Chaos, irrationality, hate, disasters and a lack of civility abound. The established order is creaking and our world seems blanketed in uncertainty. We are currently living in an age of considerable political upheaval.
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