When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I dont mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

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We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.