I really feel like humans should stop trying to innovate now and start removing rather than adding. Civilisation has become like a Heston Blumenthal eating experience, with dry ice and music and lasers, when really what we need is just a really good potato.
@TheBreadmonkey we need sufficiently advanced technology that we can live a natural life. Catbuses bounding thru the woods rather than paving everything in sight. All the ugly and poisonous infrastructure deeply buried or off planet. Communications but gardens. A shared culture of reverence for the life of Earth and the diversity of people.
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@michaelgemar @TheBreadmonkey quite nice. I am sure some will find it not to their liking , but like it or not the entire earth is a managed park now and we need to become good park managers. And get rid of technology that's so primitive as to require paved roads or wires strung up.