The Future Isn’t Always an Extrapolation of the Past

If the future looks like the past, it’s very clear that our legacy for generations to come will feature overwhelming amounts of authoritarianism, greed, ignorance, racism, environmental collapse, perhaps along with nuclear conflagration.

Fortunately, as some brilliant mind put forward, “The future always looks like the past, until it looks like something else entirely.”

It’s possible that some combination of the impending disasters named above will cause humankind to have some sort of epiphany.