> the problems on earth are EXACTLY the same problems that an academic liberal like KSR thinks are the problems today (basically: global warming + the developin

> the problems on earth are EXACTLY the same problems that an academic liberal like KSR thinks are the problems today (basically: global warming + the developing world is poor). Well, if you were to tell someone in 1714 that we had gone to the Moon, had robots on Mars, had eradicated smallpox and cured a bunch of other deadly stuff, had the internet on everyone's pockets, nuclear energy, etc, they probably wouldn't believe that at the same time we'd still have people living like they do in some parts of Africa.