I'm really optimistic about the future. However, in the late 90s, there was an initial tremor that the future consisted of living next to a human-zoo. I knew those social analysts like JG Ballard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Ballard) got it a bit wrong when they offered up a near apocalyptic view of the future of: hooliganism, deviance, a gated-communes. Who really wants to live behind bars anyway? Governement policy has always geared toward urban regeneration. You get rid of the riff-raff instead of living right next to it in a cage! The question is: where do all the riff-raff go to? Someone said they are all in the west-country!