Optimism and the Future?

In the last year I have read a couple of books with an optimistic view ofthe future of the world.  These are The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler.

I have read other works by Ridley including the excellent Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters.  He is an excellent writer. 

This is the first book I have read by Diamandis.  He is apparently a well-known entrepreneur and the author of several books.  He was involved with the creation of the X Prize.  You can read more about Diamandis at http://www.diamandis.com/.

I am mostly an optimist but tend to be pessimistic when it comes to the outlook for our environment.  These guys seem to think that we will “create and invent” our way out of the problems.  I certainly hope they are right but am not sure that this will happen.  Anyway I recommend these for reading concerned with this topic.  You may be more optimistic after read these.