Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition & Darkness” (1995)

A comparison between Giambattista Vico's cyclical theory of human history and Carl Sagan's prescient 1995 predictions about America's decline into scientific ignorance. Sagan warned about the dangers of a society heavily dependent on technology yet lacking widespread scientific understanding, predicting a future marked by manufacturing loss, concentrated technological power, and declining critical thinking.