It might be comforting, and it might even be true, but this kind of cheerful optimism is simply in bad taste in my view. It's either hubristic or it's empty in

It might be comforting, and it might even be true, but this kind of cheerful optimism is simply in bad taste in my view. It's either hubristic or it's empty in content, in that we know the promise the future might hold. Technology has been promising us the world for a while now, but what we've gotten has actually been a shift towards dystopia. Yeah, the future might be a paradise where you can virtually travel to see relatives in Guam while also learning to cross-stitch, but Silicon Valley thinking currently presents us with ad-infested crapware. We don't actually need more cheerleading. The kind of people that write this kind of article aren't the kind of people that are actually working against the threats these writers want to ignore.