(March 13, 2019 at 2:39 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(March 13, 2019 at 2:35 pm)Yonadav Wrote: What's the reason that humanity would not be able to sustain its current level of technology? I imagine that reason would have a lot to do with shaping things.
I agree, and if we aren't able to maintain our current level of technology, it doesn't automatically mean we revert to the 1850s.
Yeah, I could actually imagine a really wonderful world where we just sort of start rejecting technology. That might actually be our future, if we were to come to the conclusion that the only way that we are going to get global warming under control is to live vastly simpler lives. We could keep tractors and their implements, and the average work week for most people could be like 16 hours, and people would spend the rest of their time learning to enjoy their leisure time without spending money or setting a bunch of gasoline on fire. We wouldn't really lose our technology doing that, but most manufacturing would be stopped, we would lose most of our gadgets, and the pace of technological advancement would slow way, way down. A world like that could be pretty wonderful.
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