Friday, May 3, 2013

Computers are the Final Hurrah of the Age of Cheap Abundant Energy

Villager, computers don't build themselves, they don't power themselves, they don't mine the raw materials to make their own spare parts for themselves, and so on. They're simply the final hurrah of the age of cheap abundant energy, and will go away as the immensely complex and energy-hungry infrastructure needed to support them becomes too costly to keep running. Thus I don't think that the invention of computers is anything like a game-changer. - John Michael Greer
A final hurrah of the age of cheap abundant energy

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