[Kylon]

You know, shrinking the human race could effectively occur, so long as we had quantum computers, and we translated that into DNA.

Then we could have superior intelligence, but we would be the size of insects.

Maybe we could modify Ants too, and then we could trade with them!



This would also solve the shortage of land problem. If everyone is the size of an ant, then there would be enough room for hundreds, upon hundreds of billions of tiny humans, meanwhile not hurting the environment whatsoever.

This would also make building structures much easier, as the taller a building is, expontentially, the more expensive it is. So, building structures that are the size of Ant colonies would be relatively cheap.

We could make tiny things of every other species too! Super small horses, super small goats, super small lions, giraffes, and what not.

[MrBill]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'O')ne of the major ongoing debates on the Peak Oil site is between those who insist that technology will save us and those who say it can't, and won't.

Nasdaq has gone nowhere since 1998 (although we had that ridiculous bubble, of course---a major transfer of wealth from the many to the few). Might this serve as a model to suggest that the tech business model can't really hack it and is thus unlikely to rescue us from the consequences of Peak Oil?

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrBill', '
')To suggest that new technologies can not be part of the solution to dealing with post-peak oil is doomerish to the extreme. To assume that new technologies will seamlessly transition us to a brave new world without changing the underlying economy is also a fantasy.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Doly', '
')
That's what makes me nervous about the current economic model. If everybody is looking for profit, and there isn't much correlation between profit and utility, there isn't much hope of useful things getting done with the priority they deserve.