Things might get better, if technology is used to benefit everyone rather than just be used by the few to exploit the rest. Or perhaps things will go the way of Battlestar Galactica, and sentient robots become the new plebs.On a lighter and more hopeful note, I hold the opinion that we've had such a gutful of capitalism, it will take centuries for free enterprise to make the leap to capitalism again, if we ever manage to get back to a free enterprise system.