Ep 104: Are We Running Out Of Resources?
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Are We Running Out of Resources?
We are not running out of resources, the opposite. They are poliferating, but only because we are creating knowledge at a rate unprecedented. Yet, knowledge production needs to be fuelled. It takes energy. These days, we want to power our computers, and lots of them. And we need to protect those computers in buildings that are temperature controlled and out of the harsh environment of the natural world. All of this takes more and more resources. We already know some of the resources that can power and protect all o this. But there will be a child born to day, who knows where, who makes the discovery of the next resource.
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