I am much better at predicting the past than the future. I think in a general sort of way, it will be seen as a period of amazing scientific progress that has far outrun our ability to deal with progress. We can say anything or do anything, but we don't have any clear idea of what we want to do. We don't want to do anythign that's difficult. We don't need mathematics because we have computers and we have to go back to being a little less lazy about how we learn and how we think.
Nothing is inevitable.
We didn't handle it right. Somewhere, we had scientists out there publishing things, but we didn't have people with the moral sense to be able to deal with all of our invention. I wish I could see reason for optimism. But at the moment, I see that we're not solving most of our moral problems and ethical problems. We're only solving technical problems.