It is a variation on the glass half empty vs the glass half full nature of pessimists vs optimists. It is a debate as old as history. The optimist focuses on what it can do and is understandably impressed. The pessimist focuses on what it can’t do and proceeds to shit all over it. What matters is that that we keeping moving forward. We take so many things for granted that seemed unobtainable at one time. Think about how what goes into to turn by turn GPS navigation. It’s a standard feature in every phone. You have computer generated speech ( with different language, gender, and accent voice options) using a combination of satellites and highly detailed mapping, routing you through a city, or across a country, and making real time adjustments for traffic accidents and construction closures and being used every day by hundreds of millions of people across the globe. Take a minute to think about how amazing that really is. There was a popular book in the 1990’s called Longitude. It was the story of a guy in the 1800s that built the first sufficiently accurate clock for ships to be able to calculate their longitudinal position at sea. It was a major problem. There was a huge cash prize to whoever could solve the problem. Prior to that, ships were crossing oceans with only a guesstimate of their location. What would a sailor from that era think of people carrying a device in their pocket that could pinpoint their exact location on earth, translate languages, play music, take pictures and do everything a phone can do. I take the optimist view because I compare now to the past, not to an imagined future