Guenter Wildgruber <gwildgru...@ymail.com> wrote: Being a cultivated Dystopian, -sorry- I actually cannot see anything else > than a dystopian future SQUARED, if we do not get rid of some > preconceptions, which are deeply ingrained into our -especially American- > minds. > Which is the idea of 'better' future, derived as an increment from the > status quo. > > What possibly is the argument for a better future, triggered by a > disruptive technology? >
Please see my book for this argument: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJcoldfusiona.pdf The dystopian scenario is described in chapter 19, "Making Things Worse . . ." Please do not flatter yourself that you were the first to think of these things. You are not. Nor am I. Arthur C Clarke thought of everything. See "Profiles of the Future." It begins with a tribute to Hugo Gernsback, "who thought of everything." Roger Bacon did not think of everything, but he thought of a remarkable number of things. Clarke and I are not fools or Pollyannas who assume that things will surely come out well. - Jed
