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I have first read the limits to growth about two decades ago and it left me with a feeling of dread. Technology, if it’s even developed, only takes us so far.
by baq 1y ago
I have first read the limits to growth about two decades ago and it left me with a feeling of dread. Technology, if it’s even developed, only takes us so far.
The good things I observe are consistent mispredictions about e.g. solar power and a rather obvious lack of impact of AI robotics, this was hard sci-fi even 10 years ago and it’s a kinda unnoticed trend brewing around the world. The model designers would be considered clowns if they added humanoid robots to the population at any point in the timeline and now I think we can say in the next few years we’ll have to start doing exactly that.
Where does that leave humanity in 2050 is anyone’s guess. Looks like a race towards singularity, because if we don’t get there, we collapse.
- dsign 1y ago>> Looks like a race towards singularity, because if we don’t get there, we collapse. We may get either; at this point the singularity outcome is slightly more probable. The problem is that it won't be a singularity good for (most) people, so from our point of view that outcome also looks like a collapse. The most "regular" collapse on the other hand could let us be and could turn into a good lesson and opportunity; though how so is purely speculative fiction (which I write).