If you feel like answering these question, also answer the opposite. What if the future will be better than the past? What if "AI" is around the corner? What

If you feel like answering these question, also answer the opposite. What if the future will be better than the past? What if "AI" is around the corner? What if "Democracy" is what protects us from the powerful few? What if human biodiversity is not responsible for differential development? What if the mitigation of Covid saved us from something much worse? What will the word be like when we will be able to find an alternative energy source as cheap and dense as fossil hydrocarbons? What if ad-based internet, pointless consumerism, and the casinofication of finance is a boon to our society? What if our leaders problem solving thought processes evidence of effectiveness over dogma even when serving special interests? What is the point of supporting open borders and globalisation? What if people in general are gaining abilities to think critically and see things in terms of gradients rather than black and white polarities? I am deeply optimistic about the future of the modern world. We will do better than just sustaining the status quo. What comes next? People left and right have new solutions to the real problems facing the world. This time, it is different. Meanwhile vast resources are spent in pursuit of economic growth in consideration of the future. Will things get tough and will we reach the limits of growth as nations hold together? What if the rate of technological innovation has progressed to the point we discover new physics? What if capitalism is really an efficient rationing mechanism resulting in great use of human and material resources? What if nations and loosely organised multinational high finance cartel work together in a democratic government? What will become of us when this parasite will be gone? To be clear this post is neither left nor right nor advocating anything. It is merely observing that the current state of affair is like a ship avoiding the iceberg. Some are reduced to wage slaves while many more are doing very well. We are advocating real, novel solutions instead of the same recycled tripe of old. Will "waking up" make the future war, scarcity, and strife?