This sort of thing helps explain a variety of my preferences, e.g., why I prefer living in a rural area to living in a city, why I prefer good old-fashioned paper books to Kindles, and so forth. It strikes me that a great deal of modern development serves to increase immediate efficiency/productivity but leaves us much more vulnerable to catastrophe. Being a bit risk averse, I have a hard time seeing that as progress.
Sydney
Alan Schmierer
who knows… maybe all those naysayers that say everything that can be invented are right, and if we don’t store all our knowledge on the world wide web or tech-driven servers so they can be wiped out by a plasma storm, we’dd be bored to tears shortly, with nothing more to invent. If all is lost in such a storm, think of the fun we’ll have inventing concrete for at least the third time.