Quote from Misthos:
My experience with a lot of these technologies is that most people read sci-fi type mags of crazy futuristic predictions and think it will happen overnight. Wall Street speculators love those kinds of stories.
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Societies and civilizations grow the best when their energy inputs are a lot less than their outputs. That's how societies attain surplus, and thus, complexity.
Quote from SNBthetrue:
1. They love this kind of story because they know how to dream... because Wall Street speculators are free. Furthermore they still want a better future for them and their familly that's why they take so much risks and work so hard. A part of our life is on a physical body... why not making it a nice experience ?
2. I see you point... I would like to say it like this :
Love is the only thing that you can give exponentially without taking any risks...
Quote from Emini Maestro:
Drank it for a year on an aircraft carrier. No taste difference between shore tap water and desal water properly processed
Quote from Misthos:
1. Wall Street loves those stories because they know the public is ignorant of the technologies. Yes, bold dreams are needed by a society, but you know what, it's bold dreams that also make the most money. It's called snake oil. This is how they inflate bubbles and cause manias. They make money on the way up and on the way down, and if they lose money - the government bails them out. The rest of the population? Suckers, all of them.
The Tech bubble is a good example of exaggerated technologies/snake oil.
2. Love doesn't pay the rent or feed a country.
Quote from oraclewizard77:
Well, I would think you could use solar power to take the salt out of the water instead of using coal.
Next, China and Russia could declare war on each other to help decrease the population.
There, I just solved the world's problems. Not that hard.