tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post6712540445987944738..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: The Future in Plain Hindsight: Post-Crash Financial LandscapeIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80713201733078107892008-02-27T02:01:00.000-05:002008-02-27T02:01:00.000-05:00Art is the best ark of knowledge, especially after...<I>Art is the best ark of knowledge, especially after you've had 2 centuries of scholasticism, and your culture is ready for a big backlash against university-types.</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>Brian, if there is to be a backlash against university-types it will likely be by university-types because university -types are really the only ones that think of university types at all:)<BR/><BR/>I mentioned to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57788465296173635802008-02-26T19:17:00.000-05:002008-02-26T19:17:00.000-05:00That's the problem though, isn't it, Stoneleigh? E...That's the problem though, isn't it, Stoneleigh? Even in the best case scenario, by 2050 the human race is staring down at least a dozen different barrels of destruction... if those barrels haven't blown up in our face before that.<BR/><BR/>If the other problems did not exist, the author might be on to something. But given these other issues and the author's inability to connect those dots, he Greyzonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03675706201111951125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-77642967220614555802008-02-26T14:47:00.000-05:002008-02-26T14:47:00.000-05:00Brian M,It must have been a fascinating graduate d...Brian M,<BR/><BR/>It must have been a fascinating graduate degree you did! I agree with you about the power of art.<BR/><BR/>GreyZone,<BR/><BR/>I agree with you as well about the extent to which vital elements of the big picture are missing, although I might be inclined to argue that population will already have taken a big hit before 2050. There are so many compounding factors - population, Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54589662597743071272008-02-26T13:28:00.000-05:002008-02-26T13:28:00.000-05:00CrystalRadioI found the application essay to grad ...CrystalRadio<BR/><BR/>I found the application essay to grad schools I wrote in 1995 today. I emphasized the desire to find ways to make knowledge "forward-compatible" in the sense of being meaningful and decipherable to future generations. I thought there might be some tricks at the level of formal semantics, but I never found any.<BR/><BR/>Hieroglyphs don't work, and Rosetta stones are hard toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-3990831625405793662008-02-26T11:19:00.000-05:002008-02-26T11:19:00.000-05:00Interesting, in its microcosm emphasis on finance....Interesting, in its microcosm emphasis on finance. The instability in a single human system is about to be overwhelmed by instability in things which the author apparently is iupoorly informed, ranging from climate change to water table depletion to fossil fuel depletion. By 2050 the world will be facing even worse population problems, will have long passed even the most optimistic dates for peakGreyzonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03675706201111951125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41835155970301950482008-02-26T11:08:00.000-05:002008-02-26T11:08:00.000-05:00how thoroughly knowledge can be lost in anarchic t...<I>how thoroughly knowledge can be lost in anarchic times.</I><BR/><BR/>The function of our civilization has been one of using FF not only the production of goods but the production of knowledge. It will be the next civilization's 'mandate' to digest the mass of information that has been gathered, that is if we are foresighted enough to save it in a readable usable form. We should start Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43762428421033413742008-02-26T10:17:00.000-05:002008-02-26T10:17:00.000-05:00Indeed, bubbles never burst softly. Personally, I ...Indeed, bubbles never burst softly. Personally, I think Eugene Linden is an optimist, partially because I think he underestimates the global scope of a derivatives meltdown, partially because he doesn't address energy issues (and their effect on our ability to maintain complex socioeconomic structures), and partially because I don't think he appreciates how quickly or how thoroughly knowledge Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-91466373938032425342008-02-25T21:17:00.000-05:002008-02-25T21:17:00.000-05:00I have recommended Eugen Linden's The Future in Pl...I have recommended Eugen Linden's The Future in Plain Sight and The Winds of Change to others before so it is interesting to read a revisit 10-years later.<BR/><BR/>There is an audio interview with<BR/><A HREF="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aJiDffzBIFuY" REL="nofollow">Jim Rogers today on Bloomberg</A><BR/>in which he said there is never a soft landing in the history of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com