Further on out in time with the burden and preoccupation of material survival lifted from their shoulders, governments will need to find something of interest for their citizens to do. They could turn to war and conquest as has been often done throughout history to reduce the population. Or they might more productively look to the terraforming or Mars or one or more of the Jovian moons, where excess population might be trans-located.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > > With the advent of almost free energy, food could be produced in the >> center of cities using robots and industrial scale bioengineering and >> cloning. . . . >> > > Actually, there are plans to do this now, with conventional energy. I > expect cold fusion will make it easier and more cost effective. > > I agree with Axil's other points. These are descriptions of how things may > turn out in the more distant future. In my initial message I was discussing > energy sector employment in the near future, within 10 to 20 years after > the introduction of cold fusion. > > I cannot judge whether cold fusion will reduce overall employment, in > sectors outside of today's energy sector. I guess it will, but I do not > know enough about economics to judge. I think that computers and robots are > likely to reduce employment more than cold fusion. > >
