>>> Frank Masingill on Reflections on modernity 
 FM> In a world so dependent upon fuel and technology it is not
 FM> difficult to imagine, I think, a breakdown of enormous proportions that
 FM> would strain the collective intelligence of that technology to maintain
 FM> equilibrium.  Artifacts might not be so local and so rapidly buried
 FM> under accumulative debris and life might more quickly approach the
 FM> "primative" than has been imagined. 
Just consider Mir, a totally technological environment.  Just wait until the 
next century, Earth will be looking like Mir.  Greenhouse is just one example 
of the problems mounting.  Overpopulation another.  Shall I go on?  Just be 
glad that we lived so long already.
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