A global avalanche
13th Nov 2006, 09:56 GMT
Im a rabid optimist when it comes to humanitys future. On the one hand there are serious problems to be confronted, but on the other none of the problems touted in the mass media are particularly real or threatening. The world is not, for example, running out of oil, we know how to control pandemics, the first terrorist or fruitcake dictator to use a real nuke will kill millions - but the response will put this threat out of reach forever. In terms of publically debated issues the questions that count are things like whether nanomachines, bio-experimentation, or an asteroid could wipe us out - but all of those have well understood, if not immediately implementable, answers. The ...
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