--- Neil Armstrong.
An inspiring man. RIP.
My favorite Neil Armstrong quote. Has some relevance to how we think as entrepreneurs.
That, more than one small step, made him a hero worthy of being remembered for the phrase "for all mankind." He made me want to be a better man myself, and to build things of more lasting importance.
I wish we had more Armstrongs. Truly inspiring man indeed...
Do I think we take our information-rich world for granted? Yes. Does that make us lazy or in any way bad? No.
To me, "the number of people doing nothing but indulging themselves is proportionally larger" sounds like a good thing, a clear indicator that we've come a long way - we're so well off now that you don't actually have to do anything useful in order to survive. That's awesome, to the extent that it's true.
Our goal should be a day when nobody has to work, and everything that we want done happens anyways. We're still pretty far from that, but I think motion in that direction is a positive indicator, not a negative one.
On a related note, the book "Childhood's End" covers this topic quite well from my point of view. In the end, no one had to move a finger for anything. And it was damn boring and counter-evolutionary...