Genocide, overpopulation, famine, water shortage,
global warming, terrorism, energy crisis, natural disasters are some of the
devastating problems facing the Earths inhabitants. So the big question on
everybody’s mind is: will technology save us from these complications or is it the
burden that caused these problems and will only enhance it, eventually lead us
to our doom. The problems are well known, but will a device come like the iPad
shown and save humanity? This example may be bit extreme but the question is still there.
One of the biggest problems that is obvious is population
growth. For millions of years the earth has sustained a population of the
United States (300 million) or less. Only until very recently was there a huge
population increase. This graph shows the recent increase in population from
worldpress.com.
This growth is generally do to the newly productive
petroleum energy source. When this source is depleted what do we do with the
large population? What about the other problems like global warming/natural
disasters? One of the recent TED talks, Paul Guilding talks about this subjects called "the Earth is Full." That in order to save a dire predicament we
must work together and change our habits.
He talks about the economics of earth and how the people need 150% of Earth's resources in order to keep up demand. Even with the world's best machines this still cannot keep up with the world's needs. We are furthering our debt with finite resources the world can not sustain! The examples of the problems are not to hard to find and the only solution is a total remake of human resource systems.
Stay tuned for part 2 of this technology conundrum!
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