Americans Think Tech Will Create Better Future, Some Still Hoping For Flying Cars
It’s a lot of fun to look at the future of the past. Those gleaming domed cities, flying cars, atomic jetpacks, and personal robot butlers that were standard visualizations of the farflung 1990s in media created in the 1950s. Okay, so a lot of it’s silly and impractical. But I still want that flying car. And it turns out many Americans do, too, although they are a bit scared of more plausible developments. The Pew Research Center recently interviewed a group of Americans on their feelings about the next 50 years and found that 59 percent of them were optimistic that technology would make people’s lives mostly better in the future. Thirty percent were negative Nancies and assumed mostly worse, 10 percent accurately answered that they didn’t know, and one percent refused to answer. Before we go any further, 500 out of the 1001 people interviewed were surveyed over landline phones, and that might be why the largest group, 297, is over 65, while people 18-29 make up just 144