The Future of the World: A Debate Between an Optimist and a Pessimist

Many of my clients, colleagues, friends, and I wonder about the future of the world. We do it just for the fun of conjecture or for a serious reason. For example, some people wonder if they want to bring a child into the world s/he’ll spend the next 100 years in.
So it might be instructive or at least interesting to explore possible futures. To that end, my PsychologyToday.com article today offers  a debate between the optimist and pessimist within me.