[jqm]

Free public transit and easier restaurant ordering with wearables? India dominating the world? Little college campus utopias were everyone is smart and rides bikes?

Sounds like someone has spent too much time in the tech industry in San Fransisco and perhaps should broaden their perspective a bit. Maybe go back to Ohio and look at the meth labs and bulldogs and then think about the future. Also, 30% of the world (at least) probably barely works now. This includes to some extent people who are nominally employed.

[gone35]

This. Maybe I'm being unfair, but it does remind me somehow of George Packer's New Yorker piece[1]:

"It suddenly occurs to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being twenty years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up."

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/change-the-worl...