I am one of those who visits both subs daily and for a long time (almost a year) I have been wholly compelled by futurology's ideas and depictions of a more ideal future. It seemed at times that the powerful wave of exponential technological improvement could deal even with the difficulties of climate change and other collapse-related concerns.

Lately though there has been a ramping up of seemingly exponentially bad news that leads me to think we will never make it to the essential technologies. Moreover, futurology's focus has been a bit more underwhelming the last many weeks. It seems like all the technologies trumpeted here are slightly more dystopian (w big privacy & freedom implications) than utopian.

I'm back in the mindset that we have maybe 10 decent years left, followed by a couple decades of calamitous decline -- wars and more brought on by climate stresses, until society is closer to 19th century rather than 22nd. Am I right?