Reason to be optimistic

IT'S HEALTHY to be an optimist. You bring cheer to yourself and others around you. So much so that it has a multiplier effect (in economic terms, that's like the government spending money which creates jobs and more business and snowballs into a self-reinforcing expansion of the economy, benefitting everyone).
I know there is a lot to be gloomy about in our world today - floods, droughts, earthquakes, violence, crime, man's inhumanity to man/woman/child - but it's not ever worth it to brood. Take the Information Technology Revolution. Who would have thought in the 80s that someday soon you'd be able to message your pal on the other side of the globe almost instantaneously, or you'd get voice transmission services for next-to-nothing or that the tape you're now dubbing for your best friend would soon become obsolette and replaced by MP3 CDs capable of storing hundreds of songs in just 1 CD? We never dreamt that was possible, we never dreamt period - and yet look at us today.

I made some rough guidelines on the Dos and Don'ts of internet use which i am stating loosely here just for the record: Do use the internet as a learning and research tool. For example, DO use the internet to discover more efficient solar cells or to build bigger and better batteries to store solar/wind/wave power. Don't use the internet to surf porn. Don't use the internet to research how to make bombs.

I'd like to think that come another 20 years, we'd have found the solution to our energy needs and that fossil fuel and the internal (infernal) combustion engine have become a thing of the past or of mere curiousity interest for our children's history lessons at school. I have reason to be optimistic about the future. I don't think that the Greenhouse Effect will doom humanity. I believe we are more resourceful, more resilient and more adaptable than we give ourselves credit for.

I'm cheerfully optimistic.