Thread: Washington Post Editorial: "If I could, I would repeal the Internet"
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Old 07-05-2013, 06:47 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by wizwor View Post
All these things we have done are amazing, but I'm not sure I wouldn't be just as happy to sit on a rock and watch the world go by.
If our ancestors hadn't invented anything, the total word popluation of humans would total (maybe) a few hundred thousand of hunter gathers. Average lifespan? Maybe 20 years. (Me, I wouldn't have made it out of childhood. Too curious for my own good. )

Each major wave of invention raised the number of people the planet could support and the both the average and peak standard of living of those ever-increasing numbers.

As someone who lives in one of the more developed societies, with access to all the products of 10,000 years of snowballing engineering, I'm happy to put up with the occasional bit of technological whiplash as innovation marches merrily on, ignoring luddites and other naysayers.
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