The optimist glass is full of "nice to have" other than the Hep-C pharma which is the only "must have". The pessimist glass is full of "must have" like pay kid

The optimist glass is full of "nice to have" other than the Hep-C pharma which is the only "must have". The pessimist glass is full of "must have" like pay kids college, pay for health care, purchase roof over head, purchase car or alternative transport. And those trends are not looking good. This is aside from negative technologies. Military drones. Mass surveillance. Social media. Fake news. Corn syrup. Industrialized heavily processed food in general. And of course technologies that are on the bubble. The net result of fast food drive thru as a technology is likely negative, although superficially what could possibly go wrong with food that's fast? I've noticed over decades in the field that providing more automation to businesses sometimes results in more complicated systems rather than more productive systems. Probably the small number of failures being more memorable than the larger number of successes... An ever more complicated culture is not necessarily better, but it is certainly more brittle and prone to collapse.