Does 2023 measure up to what you thought the future would be?

Right after WWII and through the early 50s there was optimism that life would be better. People would be better educated, the UN would stop war, crime would fall and folks would live in more advanced communities with more honest leaders. All of that fell apart in the early 60s and has only continued to do so at an ever more rapid rate.
 

What's that song. "Always look on the bright side of life". I've had some pathetic things thrown at me, but I've always had the ability to come back stronger and never have I hated anyone in my life. Jamala, like your sense of humour.
 

Does 2023 measure up to what you thought the future would be?​


No!!
But given the chance, I'd rewind 50 years and make all the same mistakes again. šŸ˜Š
 

I remember in grade school our teacher was talking about some current opinion in the news projecting what automation would do. Automation was already with us, although it might take 5 guys to run one machine, but we all knew what it was. I think the belief back then was that people would lose jobs, but new jobs would be available for people who build and maintain the machines. This is true of course, but the jobs lost to those gained are not a one to one correlation. I remember thinking at the time, why automate anything at all if there is to profit motive for doing it. Although, I was too young to have heard concepts like "profit motive."
 
Having been born in the 30s, listening to Flash Gordon on the radio, one could only dream. No, we haven't improved personality wise, but yes to technology.
 
When I was a kid in school during the late 50ā€™s and 60ā€™s, the distant future to me was somewhere around the year 2000. I figured Iā€™d still be alive then, but would be really old! Predictions of the future back then were glowingly optimistic. School library books I remember reading speculated weā€™d have manned explorations of the inner planets by the 1990ā€™s, and maybe flying cars! Instead, we got cell phones and Facebookā€¦phooey! šŸ˜«

The year 2023 has brought technological advances, but humanistically I think that we have been backsliding into tribalism, us-versus-them and ā€œme firstā€ mentalities, and other dark places that do not bode well for the futureā€¦
 

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