
Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound
Long Now
Is There a System Effect?
I grew was served, came into paying attention and responsibility at a time that people thought that the exponential of population human population growth was absolutely catastrophic. And yet the system turned out to be just another S curve that is in fact now leveling off radically. That sort of happened as a byproduct of people moving to cities for other good reasons that had nothing to do with worrying about too many humans. Are the systems of this kind of complexity and self connectedness in some sense self healing in that respect? I don't know. You know, if we went to visit another another planetary civilization in the galaxy, would they also exhibit that kind of a pattern?"
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