Byron Reese makes the case that the gloom-and- doom pessimists have it all wrong. This objective look at the trajectory of history, technology, and civilization shows that we are about to enter a great new epoch of human existence, a golden age like we have never seen; a world free of ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger, and war. Reese maintains that this is no baseless hope. Rather, it is all but a certainty, which will manifest itself sooner than we expect.