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"The Future is Bright:" A fiction

Utopia: a short-short story

A Word With Marty: "FUTURE"

High Tech vs High Touch

My most recent article, Changes in a Lifetime,  described societal changes in the past half-century. My PsychologyToday.com article today projects forward.

The Future of Work

At work, many of us tend focus on what we have to do now. But it may be helpful to have a more forward-thinking view, if not for yourself, for those you care about.

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer my predictions regarding the future of work. Each year, for a long time, publications have asked me to write such predictions because previous ones have been reasonably accurate. For example, for the last two years, TIME has had me do so. Here is the one that recently appeared there. 

There was much more I wanted to say, so for Psychology Today, I wrote this more comprehensive and I believe more helpful foray into the dangerous game of forecasting.

A Debate: Is Our World Getting Better?

Some people are reluctant to have children because they worry about the world their kids will live in: war, terrorism, ever more fierce competition, the next generation of AIDS, etc. Is the world really going to be net worse or better?
Other people, in making their long-term investments and business decisions wonder whether to be optimsitic about our future.

All of us, if only for our psychological well-being, would like to be able to conclude that the world is getting better. But we don't want to delude ourselves.

So my PsychologyToday.com article today offers an internal debate on whether life will be getting better.