Insight | Technology Buys Delay
How solutions become dependencies
The case for technological optimism draws on real history.
Haber-Bosch, the Green Revolution, and the digital economy each raised the number of people a finite planet can support, and that record is not nothing. What is less often accounted for is that each fix deepened total system dependence on energy and materials.
This Insight works through why the two effects cannot be separated.
What using the time well requires
Escaping the Malthusian Trap | A Mindful Sceptic Guide takes the question this Insight opens and works through it honestly. If technology buys delay rather than escape, what should be done with the delay.
The answer is more demanding than either techno-optimists or their critics tend to acknowledge.
