[LINK] What's a reasonable level of code-checking?
Rick Welykochy
pirkeepie at yahoo.com.au
Sun Aug 20 03:09:33 AEST 2006
--- "Darryl (Dassa) Lynch" <dassa at dhs.org> wrote:
> In otherwords, we are fast becoming a society of genius/idiots. I used to
> study history with an aim to understand the future, one thing I gained from
> that was an appreciation for the cycles we go through. We grow, expand,
> innovate then specialise, finally comes the downfall. We are currently in the
> specialise section from my analysis. I'm not sure what the downfall will be
> like.
One can certainly imagine a few salient points of degradation of society:
(*) lifespans in the west begin to drop as we eat our way into oblivion,
both through quantity of food consumed and sad quality of processed junk;
heart disease and cancer become rampant killers of a sedate robot class;
see "Fast Food Nation" (http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/books/schlosser.html)
(*) as global warming marches on, 100's of millions will become eco-refugees;
see "An Unconvenient Truth" by Al Gore (http://imdb.com/title/tt0497116/)
(*) depression and mental disorders begin to rank as the number one afflications
in a disaffected and disconnected society
(*) health care and education services continue their decline in the west which
kills both human beings and scientific innovation
(*) with little to stop them, mega multinational corporations and their governments-
in-waiting accelerate their transfer of wealth and health from the lower
classes to the rich,
I could go on and on, but this isn't a Pessimism 101 class.
cheers
rickw
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