It’s so quaint to look back and remember how optimistic things were at the end of the Reagan years...
If you really want to see optimism go back and look at some futuristic predictions from the late fifties, early sixties. According to them our biggest problem now is to figure out what to do with all our leisure time, war has been eliminated and everything is a bed of roses. Of course the part about the leisure time is right for a lot of people but not for the reasons forecast.