>Do you think there is more uncertainty about the future today than there was, say, 50 years ago? 1956 would have been the height of the cold war, a time when

>Do you think there is more uncertainty about the future today than there was, say, 50 years ago? 1956 would have been the height of the cold war, a time when people thought a nuclear war with the Soviet Union that that would extinguish all life on earth was inevitable. It would have been just after McCarthy's Red Scare and the end of Korean War, and in the early phases of what would become the Vietnam War. Life is always uncertain.