Maybe the Future Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be?

If you are of an optimistic frame of mind, you work under the premise that tomorrow will be a better day than today. And you are optimistic that today really will be a good day. I mean, there might be bumps in the road, but the road rolls out in front of you holding a promise of hope and prosperity.  

Paul Krugman reviews a book by Robert Gordon that tells us the future may not be all that it's cracked up to be. Is it possible that all that progress and growth and technological innovation that we have come to expect, has kind of topped out?

Maybe Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple & Amazon aren't really all that disruptive and innovative? Are our lives going to get better with all this social media stuff? Will technology save our asses? 

I don't know. But I am optimistic that lunch today is going be really, really good!