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An increase in scarcity drives innovation, innovation reduces scarcity, repeat.
by throwuwu 3y ago
An increase in scarcity drives innovation, innovation reduces scarcity, repeat.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoRepeat until?
- cassepipe 3y agoUntil you've innovated your way into living and growing your food underground because the surface of the earth has become so hot or suffers from so extreme climate events that it has become impossible to actually live on it.
- c_o_n_v_e_x 3y agoUntil space underground becomes so scarce that it becomes impossible to live...then you innovate and terraform the atmosphere to make the surface inhabitable again.
- minsc_and_boo 3y agoUntil space above and below ground is completely filled, and we engineer massive super-AI spaceships (i.e. The Culture series).
- throwuwu 3y agoI see no need to stop, perhaps the heat death of the universe will put an end to things but with strange eons past even death may die.