On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:13:20PM -0800, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > The industrial revolution is dying, I give it 150 years... I don't know what
Not necessarily true. There is some interesting technology in the pipeline which could allow means of production to assist with providing means of production, at a price point cheap enough to be owned by individuals and small groups. This would include sources of energy and nonscarce raw materials, mined in situ or nearby. If we make it to machine-phase, then even the sky is not the limit. > the next revolution is, but it's clear that the information age is merely > the last stage of the industrial revolution. Or the information age is the beginning of the postindustrial revolution. The next-closest thing to nanotechnology is biology, and there you see information technology is intricately linked to capabilities (which are admittedly very modest). -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
