Will technology save us...I’m not sure...it complicates things. Take gasoline. The technological advantage of moving to unleaded gas certainly helped the environment. As a lifelong resident of Los Angeles, I appreciate the reduction of smog tremendously. But the same technological advances are building gas guzzling SUVs and allowing people to drive longer distances and use more gas. Because technology has reduced the perceived cost of driving, people will now get in their cars to drive a quarter mile.
Technology is neither the absolute holy grail nor the destruction of humanity. It just is, and there is not that much we can do but accept that.
Technology is only a manifestation of our will. If we do end up being “saved”, then it will be because humanity yearns to be.
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