RE: The Post-Technological World.
March 13, 2019 at 4:31 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2019 at 4:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Alot of people already live at that point (the op).
There's a push for something called "appropriate technology" which, briefly summarized, are things that could replace current technologies so as to maintain our QOL while, at the same time, being available to people who live in developing countries (and, by extension, the poor in developed countries) without the nasty environmental side effects.
Alot of them actually do draw their inspiration from indigenous and positively ancient strategies..but endowed with the knowledge and tech of the intervening centuries and millennia covering for the flaws that caused us to abandon them. There will always be a need, however, for the sort of distributed and deep supply chain types of stuff that we can all use. No single person on earth knows how to (or could) make a mouse, for example.
Monsanto, great example...and food production in general is a big sector...but to put it more accurately, people actually starve right now because monsanto is -in- business. Their products could do a hell of alot of good, but they aren't available in the meaningful sense, and their model isn't geared to do what good they otherwise might.
A world like that wouldn't be "post technological", even if it presented itself as much closer to an agrarian state than we currently live in, it would simply be post horse-and-buggy cartel.
There's a push for something called "appropriate technology" which, briefly summarized, are things that could replace current technologies so as to maintain our QOL while, at the same time, being available to people who live in developing countries (and, by extension, the poor in developed countries) without the nasty environmental side effects.
Alot of them actually do draw their inspiration from indigenous and positively ancient strategies..but endowed with the knowledge and tech of the intervening centuries and millennia covering for the flaws that caused us to abandon them. There will always be a need, however, for the sort of distributed and deep supply chain types of stuff that we can all use. No single person on earth knows how to (or could) make a mouse, for example.
Monsanto, great example...and food production in general is a big sector...but to put it more accurately, people actually starve right now because monsanto is -in- business. Their products could do a hell of alot of good, but they aren't available in the meaningful sense, and their model isn't geared to do what good they otherwise might.
A world like that wouldn't be "post technological", even if it presented itself as much closer to an agrarian state than we currently live in, it would simply be post horse-and-buggy cartel.
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