Most Americans have a gloomy outlook for life in 2050

Most Americans have a gloomy outlook for life in 2050:
"What will life in America be like in 2050?
Turns out 54 percent of participants in a recent survey expect it to go downhill, while only 23 percent think it will improve.
WASHINGTON — Ask people to imagine American life in 2050, and you’ll get some dreary visions.
Whether they foresee runaway technology or runaway government, rampant poverty or vanishing morality, a majority of Americans predict a future worse than today.
Whites are particularly gloomy:
Only 1 in 6 expects better times over the next four decades. 
Also notably pessimistic are middle-age and older people, those who earn midlevel incomes and Protestants, a new national poll finds."