What does it feel like to live in the future?

I remember being younger and seeing what we thought the world would look like in not so many years... lots of space travel, everything solar powered, etc. What we didn't hear about were the continuing wars over religion and resources, the overcrowding and related disease problems, etc. The effects years of antibiotics and steroids and unnatural substances (all ingested either directly or in our food) would have on our children (ADHD, autism, growth). So often I feel like we have moved backwards from the times when we were so hopeful. Now we have more bad news to look forward to it seems. I choose to remain hopeful, although realistically when I think about the world coming up, it just doesn't look good now. If history has shown us anything, it is that people will surprise you... there is so much that is not being covered in the scary media, so many grass roots movements and good things people are doing. At these times it seems so much more important to have faith in humanity than faith in God. God hasn't done much good on a global level that I know of, but humanity can if they choose to.