I have been super nostalgic lately for the early ’10s when I was definitely at my life peak but maybe it was also humanity’s peak? I have this heartbreaking book from 2013 called “The World We Made” which is a madly optimistic future history written from 2050, in which the world is making progress on all the things that in 2013 it felt like we could actually make progress on
so it goes
https://archive.org/details/worldwemadealexm0000porr