Save the Babies

Im sure that I share the same sentiment as most conscious young Americans in that I am frankly worried about the longevity of this great country we call the United States of America. Notwithstanding the current turmoil in domestic and foreign relations of the present, it is our future that I’m concerned about. Why does it seem that every futurist is also a blazon pessimist as well? We have all seen the Minority Reports, Terminators, Mad Max’s and the Blade Runners out there and I don’t see much hope being portrayed to the masses about the stability that our current course is offering for our offspring. America is roughly 400 years old and already it shows signs of instability within its borders. Do you see the U.S., as great as it is, having a run comparable to that of say a China where they have been prospering for millennia? I want to. Have the gatekeepers of society been feeding us these pessimistic portraits of societal demise through entertainment just to cushion us when we have arrived at that era. Look at the book 1984. I have never read it but I’m sure that in the actual 1984 we were chillin compared to the outlook of society that that book gave in its pages. Are we all preparing for the worst while actually living the best? I just know that we are growing and influencing at a startling rate. I once read a stunning statistic that said that 90% of the scientists that have ever practiced are living today. This is truly an information age. What is also interesting is that in the bell curve for an industry there is inception, growth, maturity, decline and the end in its cycle of existence. The industrial revolution, if you ask me, is somewhere in the late decline area. However, the technological revolution will be in a growth mode for centuries to come. I hope is that we as a people and a country really put an effort into crafting these new technological tools for our long term benefit and proper prosperity of our generations into perpetuity.