I’m Not an Optimist

And that’s more than okay

photo by Міністерство внутрішніх справ України via mvs.gov.ua.

I spent much of life, and my career, looking on the bright side of things. Technology, media, and our newfound power to express ourselves in a digital age once gave me great hope for the future of the human collective. What could we do? What would we do? My books and articles were correspondingly optimistic about our ability to dig ourselves out of the environmental and economic messes…