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Malthus & Technology
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Hi Rickets
I haven't read the book but this idea of technology advancing and saving the day was a topic here not too long ago. I think the argument against it was that the new technology would take resources to develop that wouldn't be available as things get worse. And that the technologies that would 'save-the-day' are really much further away then they promise.
I dunno. It would be nice but I don't see it happening.
"Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honor or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are." - Fyodor Dostovevsky
I have started reading Kurzweil's book "The Singularity is Near).
I find his data and optimism pretty compelling. The idea that innovation and solutions are growing exponentially, and that resourse depletion, food, energy issues....etc, will be solved with breakthroughs that are not 30 years away, but rather 5 or 10. He has some very interesting thoughts on how progress is almost always underestimated and why. I am learning a ton from him - whether I agree or not with all he says.
Anyway, I am not that far through this book, but I imagine many in this community are like me - - -and would love a compelling read filled with optimism rather than doom and gloom. Anyone read this and anyone have any thoughts?