The problems of the 21st century in one sentence. I am, of course, super-optimistic. 
We can make a far better future - in part by improving our institutions, and by better understanding our emotions. To quote @starsandrobots: "The future is STILL unwritten".https://twitter.com/farnamstreet/status/853034382436597760 …
I'd say it's more like: we have pathetically crude technology, don't appreciate our miraculous institutions, and blame errors on emotions, 'biases', and other alleged defects.
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It can be true that we don't sufficiently appreciate our institutions, and also that they're extremely primitive compared to what is possible. I suspect one day they'll look like flint axes.
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Very curious about your phrase "alleged defects". What do you think is the right way to think about emotions, biases etc?
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(I largely agree about technology: from a particular vantage point it's godlike, but from the viewpoint of 12018 CE it will look like flint axes...)
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We don't even have the absolute basics of an economy (universal constructors) nor even the absolute necessities of life (immortality).
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It'll never happen though (not anytime soon). But new technological breakthroughs, redistribution of wealth and counter culture can make the difference.
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Most important things don't happen soon. Doesn't make them less interesting.
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I love the concept of ‘enduring eagerness’
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Yup! Like the enduring eagerness of cryptocurrency people through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s... now it's starting to work. Ditto quantum computing (mutatis mutandis).
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Counting Wiesner's 1960s work on quantum money as the first hint of cryptocurrencies. It certainly has many elements in that vein. Then the 80s and 90s cypherpunks - Chaum etc - of course.
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I once biked next to a very narrow, two-way road. Every so often, two cars going in opposite directions would pass one another and honk out of frustration.
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Any single driver might blame his/her own emotions for the frustration, but their emotions were justified. The road was to blame.
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And the severe lack of teleporters!
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I too am curious about why do you consider our emotions, biases etc. to be alleged defects.
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