we're not getting off this rock anytime soon. which means the best we can hope for is a mini-dark age followed by a downward adjustment.
if we can keep antibiotics and birth-control in tact things should be pretty swell after this adjustment.
this is actually the back story in star-trek btw.
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Re: Global Trajectories
by Professor » Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:20 pm
It's the back story in more than a few.
Reading Starship Troopers (excellent book; movie was meh, at best) and you get the idea that Western civilization collapsed at some point, not due to war.
Reading Starship Troopers (excellent book; movie was meh, at best) and you get the idea that Western civilization collapsed at some point, not due to war.
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by eric » Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:06 am
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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