Cautiously optimistic. I watch curiously from afar as we appear to be making our way towards the 2030s nanotech revolution that Drexler and others have talked

Cautiously optimistic. I watch curiously from afar as we appear to be making our way towards the 2030s nanotech revolution that Drexler and others have talked about. If that happens things like global climate change become manageable, antibiotic resistance and cancer are eliminated and we can take a crack at ending material scarcity. But with that comes the threat of small scale DIY bioterrorism which increases the odds of our destruction. Either way, I don't think that we can get out of our predicament with social coordination alone. Culturally and possibly as a species we just don't have it in us to coordinate this many individuals in the way to needed to tackle the problems, and there are too many defective bad-faith actors who aren't even really acting in self-interested positions if viewed from any timeline of significant length. So my cautious optimism comes from technological revolutions. They've changed the face of human societies and improved the human condition for so many in the past, the hope is that they'll be able to do so in the future and that the nanotechnology revolution will lead to more individual autonomy than ever possible.