<DIV><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com><BR>Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008 15:57<BR>Subject: Re: [ExI] Oil will never run out<BR>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><BR>> On Sunday 29 June 2008, Kevin Freels wrote:<BR>> > I am going to go on a leap of faith and assume that the <BR>> problem will<BR>> > be solved. If it isn't, the only real alternative is economic<BR>> > collapse of the world and a reversal of hundreds of years of <BR>> progress> and the singularity pushed off indefinitely.<BR>> <BR>> I fail to see why the singularity would need the economies we <BR>> see in the <BR>> world around us today. I may or may not comment on the rest of <BR>> your <BR>> email, but it seems like you're just repeating yourself.<BR>> <BR>> - Bryan<BR>> ________________________________________<BR>> http://heybryan.org/<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> extropy-chat mailing list<BR>> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR>> <A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</A></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm sorry. Do you not see the necessity of an economically stable and prospering civilization to have the resources available to develop the new technologies necessary to bring about singularity? </DIV>
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