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RE: The End Of Human Evolution - The Case For Digital DNA
There is no question that technology HAS already helped us and can continue to help us, potentially even much more.
It is also very obvious that humanity is suffering in MANY ways because of disconnect with nature and this will likely increase in danger by the ways humans are currently living.
It is also possible that the greatest or most powerful technology that humans develop while possibly beneficial could also destroy humanity.....there sure are PLENTY of sci-fi movies about that....
What you say is very true; however I am (in case you hadn't noticed!) a techno-optimist. I believe that the dark side of tech will remain for the most part, in the movies. Whilst it will provide an answer for us all . .
For instance, it is technology that will finally free us from the bonds of fossil fuel, and it is through technology we will be able to clear up the mess we've created thus far.
I guess it's about willing, and that's where some of my optimism falls down. I watched a rather depressing documentary once about alternative fuel. There was this guy in Scotland in the '70s who came up with a design for an under sea turbine that sat in the bay near where he lived.
The big polluters were so worried, that not only did they lobby UK government. They all got together and ran a smear campaign on the tech, saying that it was somehow more dangerous than oil, gas and nuclear energy put together!
The public was turned against it, and 40 years later, he was asked to restart his research. He was lamenting over the fact that he had lost four decades of R&D because of greed and a lack of willing.
Apathy will be our greatest danger . .
Cg
Yes I totally agree.
The problem is NOT technology is is humanity/humans/human condition.
Yet if humans have the tech then they can only use it the way humans do....
I also am a big fan of tech yet it can only be used as its used and it can be use for "good" or for "evil" so far human have proven consistently to use it for "evil"
We have had the tech to be free of fossil fuels for quite some time...yet its just a "conspiracy theory"
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