[free from tyranny]

Fear not!
Imagine yourself, maybe an alien visitor from a dark continent or dark star half way across the universe, stumbling across the USA today.
Your perspective would be of amazement and consequently of the potential of development.
Our future can be bright. Maybe it sounds simplistic and naive to see potential when so many others see ruin and hopelessness.
But there will be tomorrow and another tomorrow. And if we only see darkness and terror then that is what tomorrow will bring.
Yes, we are about to go through massive change, but it is never to early to begin thinking about the never ending tomorrows.

[nathanbedford]

Never take counsel of your fears.

Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson

Good advice when in the field but perhaps not perfect advice in October 1929.

You are perfectly right, there is much to encourage hope and one need merely cast a glance at emerging technologies to know that the world is turning over new opportunities faster than we can comprehend their number or their effect. We are clearly on the cusp of a technological revolution which is breathtaking and which will change everything.

The question is will we maintain a political structure which will permit entrepreneurs to flourish and bring unknown benefits to mankind and at the same time preserve the individual liberty enshrined in our Constitution? My fear is not for the ingenuity of man to invent but for the propensity of man to enslave.