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Doesn't anybody watch the news, listen to the radio or even browse websites that have news links? How can you NOT know what is happening in the world today? The global economy is affected by the slightest change in politics, people, weather and even events in the solar system. Every little flutter in anything can have huge ramifications in any industry.
Yes I agree !
There are indeed problems in the world (there has always bin and will always be) but progress kept going. In fact progress will continue to accelerate faster and faster (exponentially). Don't worry progress will stall, worry about how you are going to keep up with it.
The world is now on the brink of a large scale war. Even the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't have every country on edge. The only progress that will ensue is the build up of arms. No game development, no 3d printing, no virtual areas on Facebook. I sincerely hope that it doesn't get to that, but its difficult to be optimistic when things are a"progressively" getting worse.
We can do all this here (not so worse things) because of the internet, this internet however came out of the war habits of humans. So you see, if it does not kill us it will make us stronger. I will always be optimistic right up to the end ;-) We are growing into the next steps of evolution but unfortunately its a messy process.
