From these diverse signs you can see
how much work remains to do.
Put away your sadness, it is a mantle of work.
“Sadly, at some point in the 1960s our sense of the future seemed to atrophy and die. Overpopulation and the threat of nuclear war, environmentalist concerns for our ravaged planet and unease at an increasingly wayward science together made everyone fearful of the future.”
J. G. Ballard | Myths of the Near Future