Optimists decide the future

This is the origin of the modern love of progress. In this view, strangely, the future is our mythical creation point—our beginning. We believe this without knowing it: the future is where the gods live. This is an inversion from of almost every human culture, where the gods live in the origin—the mythical past.

Barlow knew that new technology could create and empower evil as much as it could create and empower good. He made a conscious decision to focus on the latter: "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up... See more