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Old 10-01-2017, 10:23 PM   #360 (permalink)
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Reproduction and demographics operate too slowly. What is needed is some refinement of intellect to lofty heights, but across the board. SF author David Brin would call it 'uplifting', but he focuses on chimpanzees and dolphins. How this might happen is concerning. Persusasion is Okay but mass hypnosis mind control is not. Brain implants?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization
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Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller, is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing," that is, an accelerating increase in the efficiency of achieving the same or more output (products, services, information, etc.) while requiring less input (effort, time, resources, etc.).[1] Fuller's vision was that ephemeralization will result in ever-increasing standards of living for an ever-growing population despite finite resources.
Self-organizing frictionless systems could decimate energy requirements of the current (and future) population.