PS. My previous comments are probably more hostile sounding than I intended. It just irks me a bit when people are dismissive of technological advance. Things are actually moving along quite nicely in my opinion, and will basically continue to do so, at least on the tech front. In other spheres, who knows..
I'm not dismissing technological advances at all. I think amazing things have happened in my lifetime and see nothing but more amazing things on the horizon. What I'm dismissing are futurists, who by and large just make crap up hoping to be the next Toffler or Ehrlich or any of the others who made a pile of money being wrong.