From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 15:15:00 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Mike Lorrey posted:
> <<If the Luddite movement gains control of all of the most industrialized
> polities, then there will be no real sanctuary for technophilia in the
> world, and it would spell the end of modern civilization and no
> Singularity at all, merely the creation of a new Atlantis legend in a
> newly pastoralized world.>>
>
> That fantasy past (Atlantis) won't last too long. Because if the
> Crudd-ites win, I am guessing that the human species will be goneski,
> within a few generations. Low tech can't sustain more then a few million
> people. Not if climate change has happend! And eventually, sooner then
> later, sayanara (sp)
Wrong legend anyway. Atlantis is depicted as ultra-hightech and
as a supposed example of the disaster of hightech out of balance.
- samantha
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