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Originally Posted by red-beard

Just like the flying car (Whoops, Terrafugia ), the dystopian future never seems to get here.

Space 1999
Blade Runner
Soylent Green
Just about every Heinlein novel

They all predict a devolving society and a crashed future, etc. But it never happens.

The UN panel on Global Warming keeps up the doom and gloom, but we never seem to get there.

All the new programs keep saying how bad things are, but the crime stats for the last 20+ years show crime down.

Everyone has a phone/computer in their hands!

AI has not (yet) destroyed the world

There is LESS trash, cleaner rivers and most people generally care about the environment.

Yes, yes. We do a a reduced amount of civility. And I see a serious lack of civic duty and virtue, not to mention crazy people attacking people in the streets.

Is it in Seattle and San Francisco only?

LESS trash? There is a patch of floating plastic in the Pacific Ocean about the size of Oklahoma and it is getting bigger. (But if you don't see it, it doesn't concern you right)? The only reason rivers are cleaner is because the steel industry and others who have dumped $hit into those rivers have shut down or reduced production. Whether you believe global warming is a thing or not, the krap that they say is causing it is ruining the atmosphere. Many think of the atmosphere as a HUGE bubble of air surrounding the planet. Not quite. Try this, the next time you eat an apple, slice it in half, look at the skin of the apple. That's relatively how thick the atmosphere is around the planet.