16 Oct 2009
Categories: creative revolution, forecast, future, immortality, money market, sentient robots, stock market, yin and yang
Would mankind have done better if our forecasting had been more accurate? Would we have taken steps to avoid climate disruption by imposing criteria on technological change that would have slowed it? Would our handling of capitalism have been smarter if we had predicted the forces we were releasing, even if our control of it had made us poorer?