Fascinating! Thanks for the share.

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Ha, I watched this a little late (gotta keep my Alan Moore lectures in small doses).

I've been exploring this topic myself quite a bit lately. Just read Douglas Adams' Last Chance To See (written about the same time as this interview), Patricia McKillip's Something Rich and Strange, and - the bit about a noninterventionist god - just saw The Second Coming by Russell T. Davies. So I guess the destruction of nature and our own disinclination to fix things is on my mind. But - ha - I'm enough of a tech geek (and it *IS* 20 years further in the Silicon Age) that I see innovation as the solution rather than preservation and some impossible idyllic reversal. Down with the LotR Evil Dwarven Smelters and up with cool robot carbon dioxide atmospheric scrubbers. And off-planet settlements. Go BladeRunner!

If we ever take getting off this planet seriously.

Innovation is definitely the answer. Too bad we always have to push ourselves to the precipice before getting things done. Human nature though, I guess.

So true. I sometimes wish we could Web 2.0 our taxes, and assign the money to what we really care about. There would be a few years when everything went to shit because no one paid for roads, etc. (although, living in Washington state, that's pretty much how things are already - everyone wants to drive on them, no one wants to pay for it). But eventually people would figure it out. And education, science, and healthcare would get huge amounts of money.

That would be pretty damn funny.