Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that automation will leave all men free to search and research... Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.