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Originally Posted by slayda
And if all farmers still used the two-mule-teams to farm, there would much more starvation in the world. It's kinda a "Damned if you do and damned if you don't" type situation. I.e. die of pollution poisoning or die of starvation.  |
Oh, I am in no way advocating going back to the old two and single. It's just the rate at which things have changed. My cousin sits in the cab of his tractor and gets wireless internet futures streaming and can calculate whether or not it is worth the fuel to harvest his field today. (In a metaphoric sense, since he's planting right now.) In just two generations we've gone that far.
What I was trying (badly) to make a point of was that Steve's book Onuissance is all about what will happen after then next fall and rise up cycle and how soon it will happen.
The rate at which change happens contniues to accelerate and we are quite possibly looking at the end of this age. Which then leads to the question of how quickly the new age will occur.