There are old things we need that are now threatened: water and food.

Part of why they're threatened is due to lackluster planning and future mugging economics.

Add energy there, as the root of the coming scarcity of both. Almost criminal how we have let ourselves become in the verge of energy poor.

Are you telling me I can't eat tweets??

Humans did not “need” things they lacked, and live to tell about it. Every age could see itself as complete. We’re fortunate that it took until the mid 20th century to freeze everything in amber. Unfortunately, the mid 20th century left us some really problematic stuff that wouldn't pass regulatory scrutiny today - like car dependence - and now we can't get rid of it.

> Every age could see itself as complete.

I remember the thing with women voting rights differently.