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GliderGuider

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3. You do realize that "technology" requires a large number of interoperating systems?

Reply to Jim Lane (Reply #2)

Sat Sep 10, 2016, 06:30 PM

Sep 2016

Industrial, resource extraction, financial, transportation, communication, education, food supply systems, for example. They're all interlinked, and current levels of technology require them to be at least continental in scope, if not global. I suspect that technological prowess will prove to be surprisingly fragile in the face of widespread system failures.

I realize that it doesn't seem like that from here inside the impregnable, omnipresent bubble of course.

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Unravelling the myth of a "carbon budget" for 1.5C [View all] GliderGuider Sep 2016 OP

That which others accept with great despair I will embrace as a rising tide of opportunity. hunter Sep 2016 #1

Disaster, yes. Human extinction, no. Jim Lane Sep 2016 #2

You do realize that "technology" requires a large number of interoperating systems? GliderGuider Sep 2016 #3

Yes: The more sophisticated, the more fragile the web. Ghost Dog Sep 2016 #4

Yes, but it doesn't require 7 billion people to maintain it. Jim Lane Sep 2016 #5