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Originally posted by Repetitive Monkey
New technology, no matter how simple, often unlocks thousands of new uses and even technologies. Take the slowing of light that was accomplished by a female Danish scientist some years back. That will have many uses in future computer technology and also allow scientists to do some interesting new stuff to discover yet more technology.
As for your second question, yes I believe so. I think it's inevitable, provided we don't kill ourselves first, of course.
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Cool.
What would you say to this.
Would it be better to:
1) Try to spread the wealth of wealthy nations throughout the world so that everybody has a decent standard of living, opportunity, goals stability/peace... which would theoretically lead to more brains trying to innovate new technologies with new ideas
or
2) Continue to keep the wealth as we do now, and keep the poorer nations essentially our laborers. It seems to me this is the way it works. Banana Replubics exist for our benefit only. Either we use them or let them languish after having invaded them and removed their ability to sustain themselves (culture).
The moral answer is easy. But does morality function or play a key role in technological innovation. Much of our technology were created as the result of war.