I heard NASA is getting shut down. Will HM be next to go?

[ali777]

Of all my examples you picked Ipod?

Your exact quote was:

In my opinion science and technology hasn't really progressed as much as we think it has since WWII. Most of the technologies we use today were known back then. The only difference is that we came up with new applications for the known technologies and technology is ubiquitous.

My father and my grandfather think that the last decade was the most life changing in their life.

I agree with your father and grandfather, the commercialisation and the spread of technology has been revolutionary. However, I maintain that all the technologies that were deployed in the last decade or so are "new applications of what was known 50-60 years ago". The only exception I make is with the new transistor technologies, then again even the transistors go as much back as the 1920s.

 

[Old Baldy]

[quote="Old Baldy":5skfbivj]Bryan and Gardener: Won't populations have to severely shrink for us to go back to an agrarian based society as you guys opine? I wonder how that will be "achieved"? :freaked:

Probably when wars are waged over the last reserves of these natural resources.

How many would actually sign up to a fight a blatant resource war though?

As we've seen, plenty of folk will go along a with a resource war that's fought the guise of liberty, anti-terrorism etc, but a blatant resource war where everybody knows what the objective is?[/quote:5skfbivj]

I don't know, I just don't know.

In years past, agrarian based societies oftentimes had feudalism as their political system. Will it go back to that? I don't know. I sure hope not!

It could be that mass starvation might occur also Aussie. And that could cause armed conflict.

I just don't know.

The hydrocarbon era has allowed populations to explode and agrarian based societies couldn't possibly support populations that large IMHO. That's about all I do "know".

But I don't think we'll ever go back to a fully agrarian based society as we know it from history books IMHO.

Would steam power from burning wood come back? Would it be improved upon to help keep us out of a full-blown "ancient" type of agrarian based society? Will we have nuclear powered farming equipment? Necessity is the mother of invention.

Overall though, I'm just not smart enough to know the answer to your basic question. "Fifty-Fifty" I guess? :dunno: