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Try reading the news today and not getting depressed about the future. We're looking at tomorrows full of climate change, looming pandemics, and overpopulation. But just how unhappy do these possible future trends make us? Alberto Pepe, a computer scientist at UCLA wanted to find out. So he collected 10,741 public 'time capsule' emails that people mailed in 2006 to their future selves on FutureMe. Pepe mined the data for 'mood' words — words like "angry," "discouraged," or "happy," tallied them all up, and assigned each email a mood category. And the results tell us exactly which years people think will be the most horrible. More »
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