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Technology Cannot Solve the Resource Problem

Because technology consumes resources, the resource problem created by the very benefits of modernity (medicine, nutrition, longevity) will not be solved by technology; humans fail to understand exponential growth, so like a bacterium doubling in a jar that is only a quarter full four minutes before being completely full, we will exhaust resources we use exponentially very soon, and it is a matter of when, not if.

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Speaker

Iain McGilchrist

Evidence Quote

It's not a matter of, you know, if. It's a matter of when; and it will be very soon. We will have exhausted various kinds of resource which we are using exponentially.

Source

Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain and the Master and His EmissaryEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:15:28 AM

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