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I like that this approach doesn't measure money, but energy usage. Energy always feels to me like the real currency and form of wealth. Normally, we want to inc

by kharak 7y ago

I like that this approach doesn't measure money, but energy usage. Energy always feels to me like the real currency and form of wealth. Normally, we want to increase the amount of energy we can spend, alas we need to find better ways of doing so.

endgame 7y ago
CEO Morgan would agree with you. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: predicting the future since 1999.
- Quarrelsome 7y ago
  > Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill. CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
  - endgame 7y ago
    Energy is the currency of the future. - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly" I was going to link to its page on Paean to SMAC but it turns out that quote is from "Global Energy Theory", a tech that didn't make it into the final game (but had data set up for it). So there's no write-up about it. Instead, I'll link to the Paean's "First Time Here?" page: https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/first-time-here/ https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/first-time-here/
    - Quarrelsome 7y ago
      The lore in that game was so fantastic. I wish there hadn't been an IP war over it. These days Hollywood is so desperate for ideas that it could have been a TV series or a film by now otherwise. My favourite tech quote was MMI (mind-machine interface): > The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons. Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Report on Human Rights" ---- The text doesn't do the delivery credit though, the acting as well was often phenomenal.
Mirioron 7y ago
Because it is. With enough energy you can make all kinds of problems go away. The industrial revolution was all about unlocking the usage of non-human energy.

by kharak 7y ago

endgame 7y ago

CEO Morgan would agree with you. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: predicting the future since 1999.

Quarrelsome 7y ago
> Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill. CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
- endgame 7y ago
  Energy is the currency of the future. - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly" I was going to link to its page on Paean to SMAC but it turns out that quote is from "Global Energy Theory", a tech that didn't make it into the final game (but had data set up for it). So there's no write-up about it. Instead, I'll link to the Paean's "First Time Here?" page: https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/first-time-here/ https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/first-time-here/
  - Quarrelsome 7y ago
    The lore in that game was so fantastic. I wish there hadn't been an IP war over it. These days Hollywood is so desperate for ideas that it could have been a TV series or a film by now otherwise. My favourite tech quote was MMI (mind-machine interface): > The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons. Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Report on Human Rights" ---- The text doesn't do the delivery credit though, the acting as well was often phenomenal.

Mirioron 7y ago

Because it is. With enough energy you can make all kinds of problems go away. The industrial revolution was all about unlocking the usage of non-human energy.