It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

Only fools worship their tools

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.