Re:Valuable as PR move more than anything? (Score 1)

Civilization is fragmenting into different groups scattered along the path of exponential progress, each seeing the other groups as mortal enemies. All that widely available cheap energy will do is to allow people to economically produce WMD to eradicate those they consider to be infidels -- everyone not in their meme-group. There's no good end to all this, unless people can somehow manage to learn to surf the increasing rates of change in their lives with tolerance. Ok, the problem is human supidity, and humans not realizing how they affect each other. Joseph Cambell (Sp?) a professor of mythology wrote much on the subject. Thousands of years ago, humans were ingorant about much of the world around them. The survival instinct drives us into denial, though fear of the unknown,which shows up in control phalacies, and into endless curiousity in order to distinguish threat from non-threat giving a sense of control and security. Two thousand years ago, we were an ignorant lot, and religion(at least the western religions) gave a sense of control, and rallied groups together into large secure (though not terribly bright),fairly hostile bans that unbelievably still prosper. They must not breed for I.Q. And humans have not progressed all that far from our superstitious past. Only two hundred years ago we were burning witches. Today, many believe in things like devils and ghosts as if these things weren't man-made myths... Future Shock, unlimited energy, the religious wars, all require massive education and a ban on the brain-washing of childen when they are at that vulnerable age and forming their picture of reality. Failiure to do this dooms use all to armagedon. After that,given time, Google will be run by intelligent rats and roachs....