I've heard about that one, thanks for the reminder, gotta watch it.
I think we're progressing, and I have faith in crypto & blockchain, and other inventions making a better future, but with every new invention come new issues. I'm concerned about the ways new technology, like AI, allows to manipulate with people's perceptions. We need to be more critical as ever towards what we read and see on the media.
It seems that there will always be war and conflicts somewhere in the world. Balance. It is unfortunate that one is born at the time and place where it happens, but it is just a hard level game for the people there, and they still have a chance to get themselves out of the situation.
Part of my relatives fled the country to the USA during the WW2 and deportations, so they escaped. My grandfather, pilot of the Latvian armed forces in between the two wars, later hid in the woods and cemeteries, changed his name to Stanislav and took up the profession of a journalist for a local town press: that was his safe alias.​ He escaped the deportations, too. But obviously, not the war.