My general theme was the strength of culture, with some examples of how resistant culture is to change. I admit I got started with the collapse piece because it's scary and plausible.
There's more than one way of going wrong. I don't know if you followed the first link, but it was about AT&T losing out to cell phone companies which were willing to be sloppier than it could manage.
There's probably some tautology going on. If a culture survives, then by definition, it didn't get over-complexified.
Afaik, universal surveillance leading to collapse is pure science fiction and might or might not be an actual danger. I think that if you've got universal surveillance, the rules, rewards, and punishments will need to be really well-calibrated.
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Re: Macroecomonics, Space cars, Ziggurats
Date: 2010-04-03 06:15 pm (UTC)There's more than one way of going wrong. I don't know if you followed the first link, but it was about AT&T losing out to cell phone companies which were willing to be sloppier than it could manage.
There's probably some tautology going on. If a culture survives, then by definition, it didn't get over-complexified.
Afaik, universal surveillance leading to collapse is pure science fiction and might or might not be an actual danger. I think that if you've got universal surveillance, the rules, rewards, and punishments will need to be really well-calibrated.