Comment On progress and disingenuous proposals (Score 1) 601
While technology may or may not progress, it is pretty certain that human nature will remain the same.
It's human nature that will make this a crisis, despite any amout of technological progress.
To fix the problem of procrastination causing crisis, you need to fix society not technology.
Currently fixing society is not considered doable, or ethical.
The proposal is infact disingenuous.
The honest proposal would be to say that leap-seconds are scrapped.
We will let clock time diverge from celestial time, and tackle the problem when it becomes a crisis,
or some other junior poltician in 250 years time wants to make their mark on history.
It's human nature that will make this a crisis, despite any amout of technological progress.
To fix the problem of procrastination causing crisis, you need to fix society not technology.
Currently fixing society is not considered doable, or ethical.
The proposal is infact disingenuous.
The honest proposal would be to say that leap-seconds are scrapped.
We will let clock time diverge from celestial time, and tackle the problem when it becomes a crisis,
or some other junior poltician in 250 years time wants to make their mark on history.
