In: [Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2007](http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/289/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html) By: Jamais Cascio (cascio) Thu 11 Jan 07 08:38

“Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a
self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.”

–Norwegian social scientist Evelin Lindner

I choose to be optimistic.