http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/04/great_example_o.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/04/great_example_o.html/comment-page-1#comment-2517 steevo Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:05:52 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/04/great_example_o.html#comment-2517 <p>I agree w/ you up to a point. Afterwhich your argument fails. Why? because the idea that technology will save the day when there are 100 billion humans inhabiting is dubious indeed. Just because humans haven't found the saturation point yet, doesn't imply that zero-sum doesn't exist. Yes, technology has enabled more food w/ less resources .. fine, a great local inflection point. We will still move towards saturation in the long run.<br /> The part that I agree with is that when one human consumes x+1, it doesn't necessarily demand that another human gets x-1 .. that is, until the race hits saturation, which is a loooong way off.</p> I agree w/ you up to a point. Afterwhich your argument fails. Why? because the idea that technology will save the day when there are 100 billion humans inhabiting is dubious indeed. Just because humans haven’t found the saturation point yet, doesn’t imply that zero-sum doesn’t exist. Yes, technology has enabled more food w/ less resources .. fine, a great local inflection point. We will still move towards saturation in the long run.
The part that I agree with is that when one human consumes x+1, it doesn’t necessarily demand that another human gets x-1 .. that is, until the race hits saturation, which is a loooong way off.

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