“The Future Does Not Come Gift-Wrapped” By Jeff Greason

“The Future Does Not Come Gift-Wrapped”

By Jeff Greason

I use social media mostly to connect with a small group of friends, but I have noticed a rise, even among that group, of a certain form of magical thinking that I believe is misinforming our cultural view of the future and how we link our actions today to that future.   That growing disquiet was triggered when I saw, in a discussion about recent policy debates, the phrase “We NEED renewable power, we NEED space colonization”.

“All right”...