It's as if Carl Sagan in 1995 was predicting how things would be in 2025. . .

[Stargleamer]

[underpants]

1. Damn. He nailed it.

[patphil]

2. He died a year later at the age of 62. We lost a brilliant, perceptive, forward think man that day.

[Deuxcents]

3. Yes, we did. We are far worse without him

[keep_left]

4. Apropos, there's another prescient book from a few years later...

...The Twilight of American Culture (1999) by Morris Berman, which bolsters much of what Sagan argues. The Berman work won a number of book awards and has been discussed here from time to time. It's worth a read.

[Godot51]

5. Pale blue dot...

We wallow in our insignificance.