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Correction to previous post: the paper's title is "Is U.S. Economic Growth Over," not "Is Economic Growth Over."...
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Heteromeles, I feel I should clarify that I'm actually an optimist: that was a "while we're brainstorming, here's a few thoughts on pessimistic scenarios" post, not a "here's what I think is the most likely scenario" post. Moving to general...
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I don't think conventional risks (nuclear war, global warming, resource depletion, plague) present a high risk of total human extinction. Humans are a numerous, widely dispersed, highly adaptable species; a species like that is hard to kill off. I do...
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David Brin once made an intriguing whimsical suggestion that every century really begins in its fourteenth year, e.g. WWI and the Russian Revolution is when the twentieth century really starts to look distinctively twentieth century. It's almost certainly just pareidolia,...
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If we get a laborpocalypse/robotopia I think humanity's biggest problems in 2117 may be social-psychological. I fear humans have an instinct to want to feel useful and needed (probably an adaptation for working in groups), and a universal leisure society...

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allynh commented on 2117 revisited
Sorry, Greg, but this is another case where it's best to actually watch the movie. There is nothing about "religion" or "gods" nor about "parallel worlds" in the movie. I can't even see where you got any of that. If you look at the wiki page it has a basic description of the film. This is basically the standard "time reset" story. No "parallel worlds" simply the classic resetting the worldline. You can find this same concept woven through SF and Fantasy. It's a standard trope, used in a huge number of stories. Here are some examples you may have...
Greg Tingey commented on 2117 revisited
DD does not have to die. He knows the jet-engine is going to crash into his bed. He can choose not to be there when it comes down. So why does the fuckwit commit suicide, then?...
allynh commented on 2117 revisited
The book he reads in the movie was written by the old woman, Roberta Sparrow, describing her understanding of such resets that she lived through, The Philosophy of Time Travel. She thought such loops in time were actually outside of reality, and that unless the loop was resolved, that reality would be destroyed. So in his mind, him staying in bed was a way to save everyone. That's what made it a cult classic. It's that dichotomy that confuses the writer/director, Richard Kelly, and causes him to rehash the story over and over when he is at conventions, and when...
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Moderator Alan commented on 2117 revisited
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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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