What most people want, when they speak of the future, is essentially the present extended into eternity. The reason for many of the future tech predictions and science fiction universe seem so oddly familiar with the present model is like due to the underlying desire for stability and equilibrium.
On individual level, man can be trained to accept the reality of inevitable shifts in social and economic paradigm. The fundamental foundation in developing the skills to change with shifting paradigm seems to be the unflinching mental mastery in perceiving man as the insignificant mote that he is. The world does not owe man anything; no man is deserving of any privileges (or "rights" as they claim); the world does not revolve around the inconsequential preferences of man. As long as society deludes man into believing some sort of "inherent" rights, the human psyche will continue to resist any and all changes, however inevitable.
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"What most people want, when they speak of the future, is essentially the present extended into eternity."
we all suffer from a kind of illusion where change happened slow enough that we did not perceive the change, but even if we look back a mere decade it is obvious how everything is already radically different.
What is certain is that this rythym of change will keep accelerating and our perception will see change happen much more obviously.