Did you ever wonder what it is like to live in a failing society? I think it will be just like this. In fact, we are failing. We never address the burning issues until it is late, then we throw money at the problems. But that is just re-living the mythic scenario of the Manhattan Project. I have heard people say we will pull out of this malaise if we throw enough money into.... something... and it will be like the dot.com era: new technology and new immeasurable profits.
I say, O.K. How long did it take from DARPA to the world wide net?
So I guess we will have to wait another twenty years at least.
How long did it take for the A-Bomb? Well, arbitrarily say the Solvay Conference in 1926, and you've got almost twenty years to the Manhattan Project.
Won't happen for a while... if ever. Sometimes things just poop out.
Another mythic scenario ( mythic so far, thank God! ) is mankind threatened by asteroid impact. You've seen the films. Want to know what will really happen in a failing society? It'll be somewhat like Deepwater Horizon and Deep Impact mixed together.
The government response to Deepwater Horizon was nothing less than bureaucratic criminality. The system does not work for us anymore. If it doesn't work for us, it is an oligarchy of despair, destined for destruction as the next technogenic catastrophes accumulate.
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