Revolutions in technology don’t necessarily lead to better lives for the people involved. For example, it is well accepted that the shift from hunter-gatherers to agriculture led to shorter lives, social hierarchy, armies, and taxation.
Dr. Luke Kemp, aka “Dr. Doom,” has just published a book entitled “Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse.” Kemp says, “We live in a uniquely dangerous time.” To quote a review of the book, (which I have not read and am not sure I want to), we are in “...an age of pandemics, global heating, inequality, the rise of authoritarianism, the development of potentially dangerous artificial intelligence technologies and the ever-present nuclear sword of Damocles.”
Dr. Kemp says, “The future of collapse looks far grimmer than the past.”
No comments:
Post a Comment