In the past, it was belief. Belief in there being more to this world.
In the future, it will be the same. Cultures cycle.
Our magic bullet this time around is AI.
The possibility for it to create a unifying belief system that's like an infinite venn diagram of all the best parts of past, present, and future religions - and people are free to pick and choose.
I don’t know, if we had experienced it, we wouldn’t be in this conundrum…