RE: Relying on Technology (quick questions)
September 24, 2011 at 9:18 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2011 at 9:34 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(September 24, 2011 at 4:18 am)ReB Wrote: Do you think humanity is relying too much on technology? What do you think it will be like in the next century? Stuff like schooling, work, military, etc...
Well, I don't know about everyone else ,but I certainly do.
I have an all electric house.
Last Wednesday I had a power outage (2 hours);No lights,no PC,no TV. No stove (no COFFEE!) No fridge,no freezer. The outage was only local,so I still had water (that of course is pumped)
I had to use my laptop and Ebook reader; they have batteries..
Plus I have severe arthritis in my knees,so simply cannot walk more than a few hundred metres. That means I'm unable to ride a bicycle. I must have a car or one of those electric shopping carts you sit on.
Plus I take a LOT of medication which would probably be unobtainable or prohibitively expensive without sophisticated technology.
Plus no mass production and its economy of scale (making things in bulk usually makes the cheaper) would mean the end of the consumer society, and a good thing too. People might learn that a high standard of living is not the same as high quality of life,if anything its the opposite...
NEXT century? Futurist are notorious for getting things badly wrong. Eg who foresaw the microchip and what it would mean?
IF WE if we continue without some wonderful new invention such as a super efficient solar power cell or a totally new cheap,renewable energy source, society as we know is it fucked. There will probably be a word oil war. The Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan have just been previews. There may also be a major war when the world economy collapses. This has always been inevitable, ALL systems have their demise built in,even our planet and our sun; permanence is an illusion.
