Okay, this going to be pretty dour. I apologize up front. But people don't change much over, what(?) a mere 60+ years. No, we're pretty much the same assholes. In my lifetime, we've had a couple of mood swings politically speaking, communications are so good now, so quick, that 'the people' are more easily led, rumor is reported as fact in a thousand venues and its nearly impossible to get out ahead of a lie or half-truth. But that's really just politics, driven by big (huge) special interests with virtually unlimited capital. Americans haven't changed much in my lifetime and neither have populations in any other industrialized country, we've just become more accessible. Maybe we've got better teeth and faster cars, maybe we can heat up a bowl of soup in 45 seconds and produce a hundred thousand Barbie dolls an hour but, we still abuse our children, fuck farm animals, deal in human slaves, eat one another, starve one another and bomb the shit out of each other. Our DNA isn't much changed from before some schmuck decided to crawl INTO a cave to get out of the rain, we've just got better weapons. Next 200 years? See above.