There are times when it’s difficult to know exactly how to feel about human progress. On the one hand, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that we live a golden age and that as humans we’ve never had it better. On the other, that progress seems to have set us on a collision path with our own planet.
But if the scientists at the forefront of the world’s most promising emerging technologies have their way, we’ll one day look as backwards as medieval peasants do to us and most of the world’s current problems simply won’t exist.
