Remember what it felt like to be optimistic?

We truly live in the future. However, just because it’s not the future we had imagined doesn’t mean we’re spiraling back into the dark ages.

There are plenty of reasons to feel pessimistic about the state of the world nowadays — even beyond the obvious political shitshow we find ourselves in on the national stage.

Outside of politics, this phenomenon is no less apparent — especially in the tech sector.

By many accounts, Silicon Valley has seemingly lost the inspirational and optimistic glimmer…