“Prediction is difficult, especially about the future” – Neils Bohr, Yogi Berra, and many others The future isn’t what it used to be. In more optimistic times, futuristic visions predicted a stairway of progress to the stars. This flavor of futurism, found in gee-whiz Popular Science articles, promised a future of upside with marvelous labor-saving … Continue reading Tech-topia versus Doom-agedon