The present and future certainly mean a wave of new cancers, illnesses, and disabilities. There's nothing else to expect with how industry is poisoning the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit.

Advances in medical technology bring those things too, somewhat paradoxically. Those who would've stillborn a mere millennium ago get to lead lives of debilitation today for instance. With life expectancy increase you get more cancer. Every moment you live is a roll of the cancer dice. More moments, more snake-eyes.

If anything I'd hope better telecommunications would help us address these conundra more efficiently.

Those are the sorts of things I think government ought to contend with, if it's to prove some scant use in the ghastly face of itself. Not squabbling over where to put the antennas.

Leave that to the engineers.