Thanks for the new blog! Looking at mobile phones, physics is very much alive. Bright screens, location, wireless communication combined with good battery life. How mobiles affect humans is worrying, and I've stopped carrying mine, but the technological progress is amazing.
Are we really collapsing? I do see people reduce their optional expenses, like holidays, eating out and cars. Interest in religion and meaning is slowly growing. Those may indicate the first steps of collapse. Yet the amount of energy the world uses keeps growing (https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption Perhaps its just our society that collapses, and China will take over the torch, with their form of collective organization as the new Culture.
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Thanks for the new blog! Looking at mobile phones, physics is very much alive. Bright screens, location, wireless communication combined with good battery life. How mobiles affect humans is worrying, and I've stopped carrying mine, but the technological progress is amazing.
Are we really collapsing? I do see people reduce their optional expenses, like holidays, eating out and cars. Interest in religion and meaning is slowly growing. Those may indicate the first steps of collapse. Yet the amount of energy the world uses keeps growing (https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption Perhaps its just our society that collapses, and China will take over the torch, with their form of collective organization as the new Culture.