> If the human race was a bit more functional, we might already be living in a Star Trek-level near-utopia. This presupposes that the problems of FTL travel, e

> If the human race was a bit more functional, we might already be living in a Star Trek-level near-utopia. This presupposes that the problems of FTL travel, effectively harnessing sources of more or less unlimited energy and creating hard AI are intriniscally soluble if we just "apply" ourselves. Maybe they're not and we're locked into a limited system both in terms of resources and intellectual perception. In which case time really will be the fire in which we burn.