Agreed but more to the point, the future doesn't look very good considering all things emerging at the same time, robotics, AI, fusion, climate change, inverted population growth.

Already the cracks are appearing, COVID was just the first modern hurdle we faced and like a Fatman trying to launch over it we jammed our balls hard on the hurdle and ate pavement face first.

We are not going to have it any easier as disruptions become a regular way of life leaving billions poor, hungry and dumb. The society that will exist in 2100 will be unimaginable to us despite it only being a lifetime away.