Trapped in the Technosphere (original) (raw)

2022, Great Transition Forum: Technology and the Future

Abstract

Costs and benefits of new technologies are seldom assessed accurately in time. The extent to which technologies might be able to help humanity in their transition of a sustainable and secure future will be determined by the direction into which the size of our global population develops: increase, decrease or neither. Three scenarios are described.

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