Got the site bookmarked.
I think some people consider that the current era is the most enlightened height of human civilization. That technology always equals advancement or progress in every sphere. That humanity is always progressing up, up, better and better. That just because something is happening "now" it must be better than what was happening "then".
I don't have that view.
There are other standards of human civilization besides traveling fast, telecommunications, millions of stores in which to purchase millions of trinkets and gadgets, and thousands of drugs that often have odd side effects.
The hubris of each generation knows no limits. We have mastered the art of pumping up a credit bubble to undreamed of size. The pop is going to be ever so dramatic. I believe we will see "a greater depression."