Music Video: The Carousel of Progress Song from Disneyland by Richard and Rodger Sherman. Sung by Greg Vanderlaan

https://youtu.be/IP-7p8dbiSw 

D
Now is the Time

Now is the Best Time
                                     D  Db   A7
Now is the Best Time of Your Life.
A                               D
Right here and now, you've got it made...
    E7
The World's Forward Marching
          A7

and you're in the Parade... 

The Country of Luxembourg just Made All Public Transportation FREE. To Help With Auto Traffic Jams.

https://futurism.com/luxembourg-public-transportation-free

The initiative could decrease traffic while helping the environment... Luxembourg has the highest car-to-person rate of any nation in the European Union: 662 cars for every 1,000 people. Nearly 200,000 people from the neighboring nations of France, Belgium, and Germany commute into Luxembourg for work. Every day, the population of its capital city swells five-fold due to commuters. The hope is that eliminating all fees for public trains, trams, and buses will encourage more people to use those service. Not only would that decrease personal vehicle traffic, it would also be better for the environment.

Great Show: BOOK TV on CSPAN. Each Author gets to explain their ideas for a half an hour and that's enough to understand them. No need to read their books.

https://www.c-span.org/series/?bookTv

Here is an interesting Book: "God: a Human History" by Reza Aslan 
https://www.c-span.org/video/?443471-15/god

He explains why Christians have created God in our own image... and why Muslims do not... They feel that God is UNLIMITED and if you paint a portrait of God you place LIMITS. That's why there are no Religious Paintings of God in the Islamic World...

Here is another Interesting Book:

"Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society"

https://www.c-span.org/video/?447453-2/rendezvous-oblivion

Thomas Frank examined economic inequalities in cities across the country... 

and how there will be fewer and fewer good jobs in the future. His example is newspaper reporters... while they personally are suffering loss of jobs they loudly trumpet the wonders of future work in the digital economy...

WHY? Because they are not in the business of telling the truth but they are in the business of telling what the boss wants to hear... and what advertisers want to hear... 

Here is another Interesting Book:

"The End of Work"

Economist John Tamny offered his thoughts on America’s future job market.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?447430-2/the-end-work

Great Book: "How to Fix the Future" by Andrew Keen. A Plan for Thriving in a Digital World.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Fix-Future-Andrew-Keen/dp/0802126642

There are five key tools that Keen identifies: regulation, competitive innovation, social responsibility, worker and consumer choice, and education. We also need to rethink our education systems to teach kids about the stuff that machines will never be able to do, and to start planning a new social security system that will provide a safety net for all the people whose lives will be disrupted by automation.

Great Book: "How to Fix the Future" by Andrew Keen and "Utopia" by Thomas More...

https://www.amazon.com/How-Fix-Future-Andrew-Keen/dp/0802126642

In his new book, How to Fix the Future, Keen focuses on what we can do about this seemingly intractable situation. Looking to the past to learn how we might change our future, he describes how societies tamed the excesses of the Industrial Revolution, which, like its digital counterpart, demolished long-standing models of living, ruined harmonious environments, and altered the business world beyond recognition.

There are five key tools that Keen identifies: regulation, competitive innovation, social responsibility, worker and consumer choice, and education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book)

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio political satire by Thomas More published in 1516.

Great Book: "The Future of Humanity" by Michio Kaku - Theoretical Physicist predicts the ultimate GOAL of Technology and the Space Program

TERRAFORMING MARS, INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL, IMMORTALITY, AND OUR DESTINY BEYOND EARTH
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555722/the-future-of-humanity-by-michio-kaku/9780385542760/ 

Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility–and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species.