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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: epicure who wrote (9735)1/24/2002 11:00:08 AM
From: Bill Fischofer  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
The "digital divide" and related gaps are a structural facet of exponential growth. A number of authors such as Ray Kurzweil in The Age of Spiritual Machines have touched upon this but it really runs much deeper.

The "anti-globalization" movement is a reaction to this ever-widening gap. But what most people don't want to hear is that we've long since passed the point of no return and we cannot dismount the technology tiger. Nor do we wish to. The accelerating pace of change is the path we have chosen and the process by which humanity is calling to itself the next stage in its evolution.

Exponential change is a relatively rare event because it is inherently unsustainable. Yet exponential processes are commonplace. The key to appreciating this paradox is to realize that the exponential is the mechanism of phase transitions. All exponential processes end in phase transitions: water becomes ice, the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, the zygote becomes a child. But there is also a "dark side" for the exponential is also the mechanism of destruction: chemicals become bombs, stars become novae, and death overtakes the body.

So the fact that humanity is in the grip of the exponential means that we are heading for a phase transition. Looking back is useless, we can only look forward. Whether that phase transition will be creative or destructive is up to us, but it is a choice we cannot avoid making.
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