"I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy..." - Arthur C. Clarke.
Whenever the future is spoken of, why is it that most people think we will be extinct?
We continue to increase in population, we continue to conquer diseases, we continue to become more connected to each other.
What the fuck people!?
Do you honestly think your great-great grandchildren are going to be more ignorant and less capable of caring for each other and themselves than we are now?
How much greater are we at such things than we were 100 years ago?
This 'humanity extinction' mindset, IMO, is just another aspect of the 'golden age fallacy'.
Things were WORSE back in the day.
They continue to get better and will always.
Let us not forget as well, there are only two kinds of prophecies which come true: those which use good math and science (Moore's law); and those which fulfill themselves (crusades, zionism and the like).
Don't fulfil this stupid idea of our own extinction.
And don't forget, that you are one of those 'people' in whom you have so little belief.
Believe in your damn self and thus believe in each other.
I don't know about others, but my progeny will survive with the universe, for as long as the universe exists, or as long as we can keep the universe existing or as long as we can keep making new universes.
Let's show a little unbounded optimism here.