The Future Is Not a Joke

From 1973 to 2013, income growth was 80% slower than it had been in the previous three decades. If productivity had continued to grow at the same rate from 1973 to 2013,. as it did from 1946 to 1973, the economy in 2013 would have been 60% larger than it actually was. The big question for the workers of the 21st century would be how to spend their copious amounts of free time. To try and cover up the rank and rampant ways modern technology has failed humanity, think tanks fund an endless stream of identical futurist thinker types.