[ExI] Did Hugo de Garis leave the field?

[Kelly Anderson]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 April 2011 15:50, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You lose me here. What curve are you talking about? Seems to me that
>> between the civil war and the dawn of the space race there was a lot
>> of progress in a lot of areas. In which area do you claim stagnation
>> in this period?
>
> No, I mean exactly the opposite. I am even inclined to consider the
> changes which took place in that period on an equal scale with the
> neolithic revolution Even though some of their consequences were
> realised or implemented only later, and in part still are being, thus
> giving us the false perspective of "dwarves on the shoulders of
> giants".

Thanks for the clarification. That's how I see things too. Are you
implying that the rate of change has slowed from 1960 to present? That
doesn't make much sense to me either.

>> The point RK makes is that there is almost always an appropriate
>> cultural and societal background SOMEWHERE.
>
> Yes, this is also my bet and hope. Unless of course globalisation and
> one(-brave-new-)worldism have their way, that is. A constant point of
> argument with our friend James Hughes and his ideas of "planetary
> governance".

I'm unfamiliar with his work, which of his books is most relevant? The
family wealth one or the Citizen Cyborg one?

-Kelly