The faster things are moving, the healthier culture needs to be. We waffle between the alternatives of fantasy and fear. B. Prediction rarely succeeds. When it does, it s usually by noting fears that do come true. C. Transitions produce economies of information, economies of scale that we can t predict.
Most predictions are one to two orders of magnitude too conservative.
D. Alternative to prophecy is desire determination to bring about a world with particular characteristics, values. But if we let technology develop as it will, we might be unhappy with the outcome. Getting old and being unhappy with the world as it has become. See this in some colleagues. Rather cast lot with the future and make a life out of that.