So, yes, we do need education, technology, great political leadership and working together with other peoples from around the globe.

Thus, ask yourself, what is making our education system dysfunctional? Ask, what technologies do we need most? Ask, who do we need to lead? And, ask, what international relations do we need to smooth out or create from scratch?

There’s the start. Now, go do it!

I hope in all the changes we refind the need for community and each other. Thanks.

I hope that the reconnection technology enables will be the good that come of this. But, as many have observed, it could as easily lead to tyranny. We’ll see.

I’m not so young as all that, but I think I’ll see some of this.

Technology has leap-froged human ability to adapt. I hear in your picture – I world I almost might like to live in – talk of co-operation and co-existance.

While a recent article said that human evolution was speeding up, we still have not even begun to adapt social structures to the technological advances. TEchnology had in fact disassembled soucisty with no reconstruct instructions anywhere to be seen. We are all able to be discrete little units with no need to connect in meaningful ways.

The generation that is now 21 (account for generational parameters) will be more able to create the social structures to which you allude, but they do not take control for another 30 years. (give or take))

I certainly wish you well in this new world. I probably won’t be around to see it this time around.

If one does not dream they have no future, so good luck with your dream.

In the new world, a world of microlocal production, or microlocal energy production where every building both consumes and produces energy; a world where design and manufacturing is simplified so that it moves into the reach of small groups of people or households, will allow many more people to actually offer the world whatever it is that they can make and produce. And in a world where the world is your customer – the odds of finding the people who want what you produce increases substantially, since if there are only a few thousand in the entire world that will be enough, while in the past unless those people happened to live near where you lived the market effectively did not exist.

Considering that with the end of the Oil Age, those big-ass container vessels will be increasingly expensive, (and likely a lot slower, if they have to rely mostly on wind power again), suddenly manufacturing in China and shipping everywhere else is no longer the cheapest option for CEOs looking to maximize their own swimming pools while yanking the rug out from under the local unions.

What this is saying is that minus the increased funding for the NIH which has also now plateaued investment in basic research has been stagnant in constant dollars for the last 15 years.

Since 2004, NIH funding has been decreasing in real purchasing power. Biomedical research inflation has increased substantially faster than general economic inflation.

One of the reasons that we are not as cutting edge as we once were is that we are not investing in the research that produces it.

True dat!