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It depends... if technology evolves fast enough, it could satiate human desires to the extent that even the people with the most extreme instincts to breed will
by reddytowns 10y ago
It depends... if technology evolves fast enough, it could satiate human desires to the extent that even the people with the most extreme instincts to breed will lose interest.
Evolution often can't work fast enough to thwart the pace of technology.
- toasterlovin 10y agoThis is true. I don't think it is a coincidence that most of the religious groups I mentioned (Amish, Mennonites, Hutterites, and Haredi) have a very cautious stance toward new technology. Whether they can keep it up indefinitely is another question, though the Amish have been outbreeding the surrounding civilization at a 12x rate for about 100 years, during which most of what we call modern life was invented (mass personal transportation, most recreational drugs, TV, the Internet, mobile phones, etc.).
- ZanyProgrammer 10y agoAnd yet demographically they are insignificant.
- toasterlovin 10y agoExponential growth has a way of catching up with negative growth...
- sevensor 10y agoNot where I live they're not. Lots of buggies in central PA.