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Hank Green Jan 24, 2023

It seems like, for the last 30 years of my life, we didn’t really need to spend much time struggling with what to do with the long-term future of humanity. The idea in my head has always been “what folks around me currently have, but for more people, and using less stuff.”

If fusion is ever going to be a thing, if energy production keeps getting cheaper, if AI is contributing significantly to the knowledge economy…that’s just not gonna be enough of a vision anymore.

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TubbDoose

@hankgreen something weird I’ve been thinking about is that in the current era, anything that is both possible and desired by powerful people will happen. Back when electrical circuits only preformed logic as a proof of concept, it would have been outrageous to suggest that technology would lead to something like a smart phone. It was possible though and powerful people wanted it to happen - so it did. This premise applies to all emerging technologies which is very exciting and also quite scary.