> Lets hope that that technology will eventually enable 6-7
> billion humans to
> exist on Earth on a sustainable basis.
> Mind you, I think we should be ambitous and work towards a
> population of
> 20-100 billion plus near immortal humans, living in
> stimulating artifical
> environments in underground arcologies, with say 5-10% of
> the earths land
> surface built over, and the remainder left as or reverted
> to natural
> environment. We should be trying for fusion power, and
> biological and nano
> machines that recycle everything, etc. etc. We should be
> trying for a
> technological utopia, and not giving up and dreaming of
> reverting back to a
> non-existant preindustrial golden age.
> Regards,
> Wayne Eddy.
> Where is the Science Fiction spirit in you lot? Maru.
i certainly hope we make it to the singularity in time, and achieve a hi tech
utopia. i like the idea of living in arcologies under the earth, oceans, and
ice caps, so the planet can revert to habitats for plant and animal species.
in the meantime, we have to start somewhere...
jon
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