Enviro Bill McKibben has written a new book which, according to Publishers Weekly “contends that there is no boundary to human ambition or desire or to what our very inventions may make possible.” Bill McKibben is very smart and writes beautifully–and I haven’t read his new book-but I have an opinion anyway. (A bad habit I picked up working as an editor for 10 years.) It seems to me that a lot of these alarms about the high-tech future are misplaced. We still have 2 billion people on the planet who don’t have electricity or running water! How far can a few biotech companies and their ultra-elite customers (certainly in a global sense) get with resource-intensive robotics and nanotechnology while the rest of the world descends into conflicts over resource scarcity amid an abruptly changing climate?
Month: November 2005
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