Chapter 6: Some Considerations about a Possible Future

Given all these progresses in our scientific knowledge, given all these technological promises, what would we be able to reasonably extrapolate as for our mid-term future without entering the domain of utopia? Unquestionably, we are on the verge of a major transformation, but which one? What kind of planet are we to leave to our children? How will the politic be able to control anything, will it be swept along by the torrent…