There's also progress in gene-editing cancer treatments, China throwing in the towel on their "COVID 1984" plan, a LOT of progress the last few years on space commercialization, serious conversations about how we're generating our energy..

It's pretty wild. My whole life from the 80s up until the late 2010s was under this dark cloud. The wild optimism of the mid-1900s was gone, and more and more it felt like we were settling into this grim expectation that Humanity was going to slowly die off. Then over the course of just a few years things completely changed