What do you think the future holds for the World?
by morpheos137 on Hacker News.
I guess I am a pessimist. I don’t see alternative energy succeeding. I see social and institutional values continuing to degrade. I don’t see further technological innovation comparable to the period from 1790 to 1990. An aging society in a degraded world with bankrupt social values can not persist indefinitely based on ponzi schemes and other more sophisticated financial shell games. Bottom line, energy, physics, resources matter. Why life is here on planet earth matters. When biological life becomes cut of from its roots in a natural ecosystem it is only a matter of time before decay sets in. Without running a fitness race life becomes degraded and aimless. The future holds societal collapse. Not necessarily due to a buzz word cause (for example climate change) but because of technology itself and its influence on the psyche of man.