"And flying over those mountains to Sacramento showed how much open space (no people, no buildings) there is in America."
Why do you think there is so much open space with no people and no buildings?
Do you think it's all prime farm land that hasn't been discovered yet? Or forests that nobody owns and are just waiting for the lumbermen?
No, the answer is that what you are seeing is land that can't be used, for one reason or another, or has been used and is no longer productive. It's nice to look at, but it will never replace our productive farmland and forests when they're gone. Those would be great places for the urban sprawl you wish on others.
No, the answer is that what you are seeing is land that can't be used, for one reason or another, or has been used and is no longer productive. It's nice to look at, but it will never replace our productive farmland and forests when they're gone. Those would be great places for the urban sprawl you wish on others.
This changes everything - e v e r y t h i n g. The Law of Accelerating Returns. Especially government becoming a mere shadow of what it is today.
"Exponential growth starts out slowly and virtually unnoticeable, but beyond the knee of the curve it turns explosive and profoundly transformative. My models show that we are doubling the paradigm-shift rate for technology innovation every decade. ...To express this another way, we won't experience 100 years of technology advance in the twenty-first century; we will witness on the order of 20,000 years of progress (again, when measured by today's progress rate), or progress on a level of about 1,000 times greater than what was achieved in the twentieth century". -- The Singularity and Human Destiny, by Patrick Tucker, assistant editor, THE FUTURIST