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I agree. I think most of the technological advance that would require major physical (as opposed to virtual) changes won't be happening anytime soon.
by supermdguy 9y ago
I agree. I think most of the technological advance that would require major physical (as opposed to virtual) changes won't be happening anytime soon.
- daveguy 9y agoUnless water starts costing 10-100x what it does now.
- yourapostasy 9y agoPotable water is an approximate proxy of energy costs. Find a scenario where energy costs increase 10-100x, and water will closely follow (not exactly, because when potable water costs in the US rise above a certain level, then people will change their habits, like not use potable-grade for watering their lawns, and not having lawns in the first place). Due to ongoing transition of developing nations into developed nations, and the tendency so far of the latter to decrease birth rates due to populations that embrace development trends responding to economic incentives, there is likely a cap on energy costs well below 100x.
- tomjen3 9y agoIn that case I will have to move somewhere where I can dig a well, buy a reverse osmosis filter and fix it all to solar panels (which are getting super cheap).