<DIV><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com><BR>Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008 21:52<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'm sorry. Do you not see the necessity of an economically <BR>> stable and<BR>> > prospering civilization to have the resources available to develop<BR>> > the new technologies necessary to bring about singularity?<BR>> <BR>> Resource availability has little to do with finances at this <BR>> time. For <BR>> instance, if you are poor or if you have a billion dollars, the <BR>> star is <BR>> still above us. For instance, whether you are poor or rich, your <BR>> cells <BR>> are still replicating and doing pretty interesting things. For <BR>> instance, it is possible to make things without money, just as <BR>> your <BR>> body does.<BR>> <BR>> - Bryan<BR>> ________________________________________<BR>> http://heybryan.org/<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> extropy-chat mailing list<BR>> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR>> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<BR>> </DIV>
<DIV>I forget sometimes that you are young. You just completely avoided the question.</DIV>
<DIV>The technology necessary for singularity isn't going to be made by some guy in a cave. It requires extremely high technology - far beyond what is capable of now. Technology requires industry. Industry requires economies. Economies require stability. Without stable growing economies you get no advancing industry and no advancing technology. A cell phone without civilization is just a paper weight.</DIV>