Arrigonis -- I was bored too, that's why I was trolling you. But, it gave you something to do on a rainy afternoon, so win—win!
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There are lots and lots of articles and studies about this...
Some are written by scientists, economists and activists...in the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s and 2000s - all of them predicted we should be dead, starving...living in a new desert, or just not living at all because the world ended. Have you read the latest end of world sci-fi...
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What's different about Richard Buckminster Fuller is that his Anticipatory Design Science put tools on the shelf for problems we would and will face later. An example: his Synergetic Geometry gives us a conceptual framework to work on the nanoscale. Doing ever more with ever less qualifies as General Efficiency.
There are conceptual frameworks in which in February 2013, after a 3-month interregnum between Ages, we begin a 10K year Golden Age.
I've always looked for science fiction that shows a future that I would care to inhabit. So that leaves us with, ummm...... Barbarella?
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It woukd probably be more fun than discussing peak oil.
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No doubt, but I don't want to get a reputation for going off topic. It's a slippery slope.