Futures Thinking Five reasons to feel hopeful in the new decade Karen Swisher covers tech and society for the New York Times. She agrees that as the decade comes to a close the internet and what it has wrought feels pretty crappy. And she also sees five reasons to feel hopeful about what we are learning and how we can respond to it. "It all feels very Yeats-y — things falling apart, the center not holding, anarchy loosed, drowned innocence, a lack of conviction from the best and, of course, endless loudmouthery from the worst. "But despair not, because what’s coming in the next few years might be a lot better than you expect, especially now that our outsize expectations for tech have been leveled and fanboy tendencies toward technology companies have been tamped down."  Article: No More Phones and Other Tech Predictions for the Next Decade