I'm optimistic.......I hope you get a chance to talk with a 100 year old senior who has seen everything from a prairie home with no running water until her father drilled a well with a post and a mule, lived thru the great "dust bowl" and now has a smart phone.
The accomplishments we have seen in technology this past 100 years will only multiply geometrically in the next 100 years........I would give anything to see what life will be like then............
Moore’s Law is still in effect, but that’s for computing power, not transportation power.
In order to get from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’ where the distance is extremely huge, like in light years, there must be a way to circumvent the light speed limit.
Sci-Fi writers have imagined several ways of doing this in order to make their stories seem feasible, like worm holes, fold space, hyper-space, star-gates, etc. The least feasible would be the ‘warp-drive’ of Star Trek fame. Speed that is multiples of the speed of light would require more energy than is possible to create.
Maybe quantum physics will come up with a way to instantaneously transport matter from one point to another without the need for huge amounts of energy in the process. If you can do it with a photon, you can do it with a dump truck.....................