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And I haven't been this excited (nay, giddy) since I was about 6 and reading Space Colonies For Kids or whatever. I'm a bit worried about the bimodality of the

• StavrosK 14y ago
  Hopefully the bad parts will be okay too!
  • stcredzero 14y ago
    We already have many of the bad parts from cyberpunk books.
• InclinedPlane 14y ago
  I'm pretty optimistic about the future. The information age is young yet and only recently starting to come into its first full stage of maturity. And there are a ton of very hopeful signs out there, especially in terms of long term trends. I think the chances that things will turn out well are actually higher than not doing so.
  • skorgu 14y ago
    Don't get me wrong, I'm optimistic myself. I'm just a bit concerned about how some poorly defined cohort of 'people who don't read HN' are going to fare; not all of those trends are looking super rosy.
    • InclinedPlane 14y ago
      Oh, certainly. There are a lot of scary trends right now, but there are also a lot of very positive trends. Personally I think the forces behind the latter are more powerful, but it's not exactly a sure thing necessarily. If someone told me that in 2070 the developed world was basically neo-feudalist with strong class divisions amidst an effectively world-wide police state I could easily believe it. I think there are a few major, mostly technological, developments which haven't happened yet but are essentially inevitable which will tend to tip things even stronger toward the "good" side. I should probably write about that at some point.