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> The engine of progress has already solved much harder problems than the current ones. I suspect the harder problems you're thinking of are all technological.
by sgu999 3y ago
> The engine of progress has already solved much harder problems than the current ones.
I suspect the harder problems you're thinking of are all technological. The current ones we are facing are social and political more than anything, so I don't share your optimism...
- nickpp 3y agoYes, there is a danger there, and it wasn't always an easy path, but anti-tech movements were always around. Call them luddites, de-growth, doomers, anti-tech, anti-nuclear greens, anti-development (or their e economic equivalent: anti-capitalists, marxists and communists) - historically they always lost to progress. Humanity is huge and diverse - if a group of people decides to stop evolving and stagnate, another will gladly steal their place.
- sgu999 3y ago> historically they always lost to progress What you call "progress" is what led us here. Remains to be seen if "here" is a trap. You seem to think that everything is fine since everything will be fine, but that opinion doesn't have a consensus right now. I prefer to remain more doubtful.