|
Sorry but mass mechanization has already occured. Energy already does 90% of all work and process in the world. Energy ER/EI has already started to inexorably slip and will continue down. Wind and solar will not find it's replacement for even half of the fossil carbon bonanza we are now privy to. Which leaves less societal surplus for each human even while the population is growing even with a hoped for 2:1 efficiency improvement. A new category of cheap electronic gadgets can make us happier with less. But the fact is that the bottom 50% of OECD humans are working harder and longer and taking home less. Which forces dual incomes as necessity where one worker and a home maker used to be able to raise a family with equity building from world economic growth increasing the value of the home which they could afford to own. Our fossil energy seed corn for a partial energy transformation is being devoured by frivolous waste.
.
The concept of zero marginal cost from limitless free energy supplying an endless supply of robots building robots without regard to dwindling nonrenewable resources is absurd to me.
.
We are right now already living very close to the peak of the Star Trek future where we will be very fortunate to salvage a focused and more efficient world internet and electronic industry to at least hang on to that as we take pragmatic aim at a plan to drop back to where we can once again learn to share and most people will grow most of their own food, fuel wood, and fiber.
|