Very interesting topic and a fantastic list of benefits of living in our time!

I think that what you wrote last is true. Human civilization is progressing more and more each century; there haven't been any real setbacks so far as I know. Thus, I believe that we are living in the best time of the current history, but the same was probably true for each of the centuries/millenniums behind us. It's probably only important to skip living in the overly destructive periods, such as world wars and horrible pandemics.

I would also like to add that the availability of the benefits of today's time depend on where were you born. If you are born in a poor family in one of the underdeveloped countries, you have very little to gain from many of the listed benefits. Hopefully, the wealth distribution will be much fairer in the future.

One note on mortality: if we would overcome death that would be horrible. The world is already overcrowded, and if we would make more children without dying, that would inevitably lead to wars or unfair life/death selections. I like to believe that everything on the Earth is interconnected, that we are all a bit of everyone and we keep going through a uniform cycle of life - evolution, thus our individual death is not really the death of life.

P.S. The picture you used for this article goes superbly well with your avatar.

Cheers! : )