If you were living through the Industrial Revolution, the future felt very uncertain. If you were living through the peak of the Cold War, the future felt very uncertain. If you were living through any of the major plagues, economic crashes, world wars, or famines, the future felt very uncertain. There's a tendency to say "this time is different" with every major event, but while the specifics are always different, as a student of history, you cannot ignore the general similarities.
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