I'm totally voting against Armageddon. I do fear that, just as the atomic era ushered in all new existential threats, that the nanotech era we are now entering will expose us to existential threats that most folks have never conceived of.

The risk of things going catastrophically wrong in the next 50 years is very real, but the chance of things going unbelievably right is also there. Whats more for the first time ever it seems that some folks in positions of power are actually starting to worry about these issues. Thus the current ongoing conference in Oxford on existential risks.

So, put me down for a hopeful optimist. I know the future can be scary, but it can also be good, and I KNOW how messed up the past was.