Maybe we are just stumbling forward, perpetuating processes introduced earlier? Walking on decaying roads the Romans built, after they left. Science has severe

Maybe we are just stumbling forward, perpetuating processes introduced earlier? Walking on decaying roads the Romans built, after they left. Science has severe issues, and life expectancy is decreasing in the US. To be fair, there is a lot of progress going on these days, but even if there was none - there would be all kinds of "growth" to be squeezed out of what the giants before us built. The internet can still bring a lot more of that "literacy" to the world. But you can't deny the diminished optimism about technology, and the future in general. We can't get Fusion, we can't get quantum computing, we won't have a base on the moon, expensive physics experiments find nothing practial.