Hey, we may all be gone in a scant 800 years :
That’ll solve your technology problem!
If the media is to be believed it’s headed to the Staples Center for the Michael Jackson Memorial
My take:
Years 2009-2200: patchy and variable increases and decreases in technology and standards of living depending on location. Resource wars, at least one of which will be nuclear. Gradual decline in influence of large nation-states, with the fragmentation and balkanization of the currently geographically massive countries.
Years 2200-10000ish: the population decline begun in the previous period continues. Gradual reversion to pre-industrial societies, nation-states nonexistent or vastly reduced; small scale city-states, chieftainships and fiefdoms more the norm.
Years 10000ish-10 million: Isolation of populations and one or more nearly extinction-level events lead to evolution of a variety of specially adapted post-human species, mainly non-sentient by modern human standards.
Year 10 million to 500 million: post-human species and their descendents eventually die off. Around year 500 million, increasing solar output kills off remaining life on Earth.
Year 500 million onward: peace and quiet at last!
You only believe that because you were predestined to. 
I was going to say something along these lines, but mine didn’t have latin so I like yours better.
Maybe life was better 100 years ago, I have no idea. Maybe people were generally happier, or thought they were. They also had pretty short lives and suffered from things that we’ve managed to eradicate. I don’t know where it’s all heading. But frankly I’m excited to go along for the ride.
Nation–there are 7-8 Billion Humans on Earth right now.
Without technology, what will you do with them all? Shoot them? Eat them? They can’t be fed without tech, much less housed, clothed or educated.
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D Good one!
Sign me up for immortality too. Whether it’s as a human, cyborg, completely robotic, or information circulating in a computer… as long as I’m still “me”, it beats the hell out of “no-me”.
I just can’t fathom someone who “hates the internet” posting that on the internet. There are things in life that I hate too, but since I’m not a masochist, I tend not to do them.
…sub-species in 100,000 years .
One a tall healthy upper class and the other dim-witted ugly goblins.
You’re perfectly able to not have a cell phone. You know what I use my cell phone for? To call my wife and tell her when I’m headed home from work, to coordinate meetings for our kids, and so on. My life would be worse without a cell phone, because I’d be out of contact with my family, who I love.
So if you don’t have anyone worth calling, then get rid of your phone. And no one will care.
Plus, if you hate the internet there is fortunately another simple solution for that problem.
The last line of that article is, “He carried out the report for men’s satellite TV channel Bravo.”
Man, that can’t help but come true
This essay is always my response to stuff like this–the real question is ALWAYS “who decides what the ‘right’ level of technology is?”, not “should there be technology or not?”.
Me, I’m with the post-humanists–the current body is just a vehicle that carries me around, as was said upthread. I often wonder how people could NOT want to live forever, with so much to learn and experience that no human lifetime could begin to take it all in.
[QUOTE=Zeriel;11319633Me, I’m with the post-humanists–the current body is just a vehicle that carries me around, as was said upthread. I often wonder how people could NOT want to live forever, with so much to learn and experience that no human lifetime could begin to take it all in.[/QUOTE]
But how many people actually want to learn and experience. IME, most people have found their comfort nitch by the time they’re 25 and will only experience and learn something new when they’re forced to.
Sure there are people who have a midlife crisis and move across the country and start a new career, but they are by far the exception and not the rule. The majority of the world will die in the city they’re living in when they’re 35.
I’ve been reconnecting with high school friends through Facebook, and it’s actually kind of depressing how many still live in the same area, if not the same house, as they did 25 years ago.
<— 41 years old, and just moved all the way across the country for the second time to take a new job.