Yet another lone optimist here too :) I grew up with a TV show called "Beyond 2000" about the miraculous things the future would bring. The future was widely se

Yet another lone optimist here too :) I grew up with a TV show called "Beyond 2000" about the miraculous things the future would bring. The future was widely seen as exciting and better than the present. But nowadays, popular culture seems pretty negative about it, as does science fiction. Maybe the really influential technologies like cars, transistors, computers, and space travel have finished their initial rapid growth and over-hyped stage? But why isn't machine learning or some of the new biotech technologies taking its place? They're as exciting as buggery to me!