Do you think we'll have another dark age(s)? Or are we past that kind of stuff?

[Lew Zealand]

Nah.

You've just been watching too much Oprah.

[Mike Johnson]

18% of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth
41% of Americans think the threat from global climate change is exaggerated
51% of Americans believe God created man in his current form
65% of Americans don't know what DNA is
John Kerry, Orrin Hatch, and the late Ted Kennedy supported a legislation to require medical insurers pay for prayer "treatments."

So no, we're not past that.

[Lew Zealand]

Meh.

Ignorant and brainwashed is not a new human condition.

[mattkime]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
I've been pondering this question for years. My opinion? Our civilization's complete and total reliance on electricity makes us EXTREMELY vulnerable.

i bet in the middle ages they said the same thing about fire

[rgG]

MacArtist beat me to it.

12/21/2012

My daughter showed me a new Facebook group the other day that is something like: "If the world ends in 2012, I will have wasted my whole life going to school." My daughter is in the class of 2013. :biggrin:

[Acer]

Electricity is the easy part. We can use nukes for that. And trust me...when our smart phones are on the line we WILL build all the nuke plants we need, complete with all the breeder pebble reprocessors Yuka Mountains we need. All that tech is already developed. Not cheap, not easy, but it's there. Unlike the hydrogen economy.

The tough part will be replacing oil as a dense portable fuel source for long distance transport. Without a major breakthrough, THAT will change our lives....some. We'll still have our plasma TVs though.

[Doc]

Acer wrote:
Electricity is the easy part. We can use nukes for that.

What kind of nukes?

We're running out of uranium. Civilian supplies should be exhausted by 2013.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24414/

[AAA]

except for the fire part, still sounds like a house of cards to me.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I have no doubt we will eventually move to nuclear-generated power; we'll do so gladly. But electricity on demand is more than the ability to generate power.

[Seacrest]

Fire bad.