[polotics]

Hi partycoder, both for your (quote) "man in the middle ages", whose vision of the future was biblical apocalypse real soon now, not more kings and castles, and for your contemporary (quote) "human" whose future somehow is also an apocalypse of sorts, if you are not yourself doing something to prevent/hasten this future, may I put it to you that you are much more like a middle-ages man than you think? Apocalypse are convenient exonerators.

[badminton1]

It seems you didn't get the point of the analogy. My point is that the outcome of paradigm shifts are hard to predict. It would have been hard to predict for a middle ages person to predict the Reinassance and everything that followed after.