#ref no. 1:
Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
It's hard to predict. What is the trend? There always were people who needed 'interesting' life and 'boring' life. I think what we see today comparing to 1000 years ago is:

1. There are visibly more people who prefer 'interesting' over 'boring'.
2. There are visibly more people who prefer 'moderately interesting' over 'boring'.
3. The applications for those people have shifted significantly from military to creative.
4. Even if you're a 'moderately interesting'/'boring' type, you have to say in your job interview that you'd prefer a 'challenging' project even if it pays less. And a perception is a reality. (TM)

So, I think the vector is clearly visible. Will there ever be the mental readiness for the entire society? You got me.
Your opinions are subjective since we don't know such details about common folk that lived 1000 years ago, but from the records that have survived the time I see that human nature didn't change all that much and neither did their motives. Good old seven deadly sins still rule the world and they will be in 1000 years methinks. This won't leave much room for romantics.


Yes and no. Some breakthroughs which are not supported by the society are lost too.
But then we wouldn't have called them 'breakthroughs'


It is, but then there's a question of clothes. Then the personal security. [And then everything up the ladder.] Example: South Africa - plenty of what not, but the escalation of crime and violence is unbelievable. It's not a secret that many of the fields in the third-world countries yield some type of drugs, while the people in the same country are short of food. So, let's hand out the food to everyone? Not that simple.
see ref no.1 don't you think it's a classic example of mutually-exclusive paragraphs (TM) ? You don't believe in humankind any more than I do, do you?