That most future 'extrapolations' these days.. somehow just automatically swing towards apocalyptic?
(Maybe it's just so much easier to expand from the shit VS the small pockets of beauty, because there's so very much of it - dunno what that environment does to the er collective consciousness: but it can't be Good - what it does.)
Oh well - if our 'future' is to become the Eloi, why we're \ufffdths of the way there already.
We must forget whatever we know.. so as to blend in ;-)