What the future holds
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- Question
- Do you have a optimistic view of what the future holds, or do you think there is cause for people to be quite frightened?
- Dr Jack Bacon
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I think the answer to both of those questions is yes. I have looked at 28 generations of my family. I’m aware of all of my ancestors back to the dark ages, along the male side, father to son, to son to son. And by tracing their lifestyles in the first book I wrote, I was able to understand that not a single one of those generations for a thousand years would ever trade and go back to an earlier one. That somehow we manage to make life better in every generation. Now we create new problems. Generations a couple of years ago would never know about global warming, but now that’s a problem that we have to deal with. So while we do make life better we create larger and larger problems, and larger and larger quality of life. This coming generation will have bigger problems to solve than any time in history, but they will live better and longer, and have more opportunity than at any time in history. So basically the intensity of life gets more and more and more strong.