A Scientist Predicts the Future

[NoOneMan]

53. "Intelligently directed technology is much quicker than evolutionary biology"

You really couldn't be more wrong.

It took nature millions of years to create an entity with the computing power of a spider's brain, but it took us only a few thousand years.

I'm not sure we've even done this yet, as we really cannot create self-replicating nano machines to fill every spider niche in the world absolutely while maintaining harmonious balance with the existing biosphere. We don't even understand the patterns and behaviors encoded into the spiders' DNA that compels it to act the way they do.

And please remember, when you talk of efficiency and energy, do mind that when man creates now, they do so while leaning upon 3 billions years of reserve energy built up and left over from photosynthetic organisms. Biology has left a bounty of energy on this earth that man is flying through. Somehow this is never accounted for in the cost of development and production. Man did not create this energy out of thin air. We are scavengers of over-efficient organisms. A plant can grow food with the real-time energy input of the sun. Man must build a vast complex infrastructure blowing through years of sun captured energy from past plants. No, this isn't more efficient than plants. And unfortunately, we also know that tapping into the solar reserves in the form of hydrocarbons is directly causing a climate catastrophe.

It is laughable to suggest that man could more efficiently produce their own food by developing a system that may lean on millions of years of solar reserves, when man could simply plant trees and let the real time energy of the sun produce the food.

This is technophilia