Comments on: Technology will save us http://www.pro-liberi.com/2009/09/27/technology-will-save-us/ Looking to the future for our species and showing how Technology will save us if Politics doesn't doom us first Tue, 31 May 2011 11:04:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lord T http://www.pro-liberi.com/2009/09/27/technology-will-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-871 Lord T Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:44:42 +0000 http://www.pro-liberi.com/2009/09/27/technology-will-save-us/#comment-871 James, I don't forget those that follow the doomsayers. The blog tagline is 'if Politics doesn't doom us first' I think that factors it in. Now the guy who wrote that article pointed me to another article I liked which said “In twenty years, [renewable] sources will have failed economically, leaving renewable energy to be remembered as the energy equivalent of sub-prime mortgages. “ James,

I don’t forget those that follow the doomsayers. The blog tagline is ‘if Politics doesn’t doom us first’ I think that factors it in.

Now the guy who wrote that article pointed me to another article I liked which said

“In twenty years, [renewable] sources will have failed economically, leaving renewable energy to be remembered as the energy equivalent of sub-prime mortgages. “

]]> By: jameshigham http://www.pro-liberi.com/2009/09/27/technology-will-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-869 jameshigham Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:28:42 +0000 http://www.pro-liberi.com/2009/09/27/technology-will-save-us/#comment-869 "Her point that ..." “Her point that …”

]]> By: jameshigham http://www.pro-liberi.com/2009/09/27/technology-will-save-us/comment-page-1/#comment-868 jameshigham Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:27:30 +0000 http://www.pro-liberi.com/2009/09/27/technology-will-save-us/#comment-868 Alison George makes some good points and if taken in isolation, in a perfect test tube world, are valid. He point that there is an adaptability, a networking solution which can overcome vicissitudes and adapt to the new challenges is a good one. Don't get me wrong - I vastly prefer your optimistic [you'd call it realistic] belief that technology can win through and there is a lot of evidence to support it. Many times the doomsayers predicted the end and it did not come. Two things in the equation which can't be ignored though are the agenda of people who wish the doomsayers to be right for the profits to be made from it and some bizarre sense of global destiny - they need to be factored into Alison's argument too. The other is the metaphysical and I smile to see "rationalist" reactions whenever I introduce that. It ranges form dismissal to apoplexy and yet there are observable phenomena which need to be factored in, not least in the biological adaptability Alison refers to. Alison George makes some good points and if taken in isolation, in a perfect test tube world, are valid. He point that there is an adaptability, a networking solution which can overcome vicissitudes and adapt to the new challenges is a good one.

Don’t get me wrong – I vastly prefer your optimistic [you'd call it realistic] belief that technology can win through and there is a lot of evidence to support it. Many times the doomsayers predicted the end and it did not come.

Two things in the equation which can’t be ignored though are the agenda of people who wish the doomsayers to be right for the profits to be made from it and some bizarre sense of global destiny – they need to be factored into Alison’s argument too.

The other is the metaphysical and I smile to see “rationalist” reactions whenever I introduce that. It ranges form dismissal to apoplexy and yet there are observable phenomena which need to be factored in, not least in the biological adaptability Alison refers to.

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