[happyscrappy]

Excellent comment and I too am very bullish on the future.

>There is a doom-and-gloom mentality on this site; people seem like they want the end-of-days.

Everyone feels like their struggles are epic because they are the ones fighting. Everyone has struggles, just at different levels, so some minor career setback feels crushing even though you are not in any real jeopardy. People also tend to romanticize about the past, when in reality if they went back they would be horrified.

>There is no reason to cower from the ills of today; they are only a call to keep moving forward.

True but I do think that there is the problem that technology is moving so much faster than society. The curve of tech is steepening, and though I never thought I would hear myself say this, I think we could pull back on the throttle a little.