Wow, that is quite a post. It posits technology as the universal solvent for most of the problems. If it isn't the universal solvent, and some things advance rapidly, while others do not, like letting geezers hang on as geezers, then it will tend to fall apart. The power issue is a serious one. Those with the connections and skill tend to want to simply hang on, while in good health. Younger folks get impatient. I refer to the Shakespeare play, King Lear. I also wonder about 30 billion folks on this planet. Again, that assumes technology gets solves everything. Right now, Jared Diamond in his latest book (the Guns, Germs and Steel guy) suggests that we are not too far away from maxing out on the amount of food that can be reaped from photosynthesis, and we are meanwhile expending top soil rather rapidly. Iowa, with perhaps the deepest top soil on earth, thanks to the glaciers, has lost more than half of it so far. Regulating reproduction if folks are young and virile for hundreds of years, will require a rather authoritarian regime. Indeed much of the brave knew world requires that, including the notion, that folks have to give up their jobs just because.
In any event, nice job, but putting aside my other points, the key to breaking out of the puzzle palace is assuming all the technological solvents advance in tandem, synchronously, with rather precise metier and rhythm, as in a well crafted symphony. Absent that you get discordant notes.
The key to breaking out of the puzzle palace is assuming all the technological solvents advance in tandem, synchronously, with rather precise meter and rhythm, as in a well crafted symphony. Absent that you get discordant notes.An excellent way to put it! Well, I gotta go, but I'll get back with a few more very brief remarks tomorrow.