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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (60959)	10/3/2002 5:33:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I think the growth in "faster and stronger" will slow, at least until we move in to space in a big way. But other improvements will continue and new ones will start. We are not a lot "faster and stronger" in terms of the speed of vehicles or the amount of tons of material are machines normally move around then we where in 1960 but we are more precise, more efficient and more flexible. The "faster" and stronger" improvements where most of the improvement of the industrial revolution but not IMO since then or at least not in recent decades. One type of faster will continue improving for awhile. We have faster computers, faster network bandwidth and so on. The improvements may slow down but they should continue at a good clip for awhile. Our ability to use resources from space is very small but will grow. Our biological sciences show no sign of slowing down. We continue to improve in any number of areas. Outside of technology I believe that more of the world will be liberated from totalitarianism and move to democracy and capitalism. This might not happen but my original point was only that it is possible that we can continue to have population increases and increases in per capita wealth. That possibility requires a continued move to free markets or at a minimum no strong movement away from them. If we move away from free markets in a big way I see only misery... Tim