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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (397319)7/9/2008 9:56:27 PM
From: combjelly   of 1576004
 
"Seems like that episode's timeline is a few decades before Star Trek: First Contact. You know, WWIII."

Right. The point, though, is that the Star Trek universe is a utopia. And utopias often grow out of distopias. Which Bell's time was.

At least in science fiction. Despite mythologizing various periods in history, we've never had a utopia, although we have had our share of distopias.

So the "economics" of the 24th grew out of the problems of the 21st. And, frankly, what kind of economics can you honestly have when you have total conversion and being able to convert energy to highly structured matter? And, given that they do it for food, it isn't particularly expensive? Where is the scarcity to manage?
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