Thursday, November 04, 2010

Can Invention Survive the Apocalypse? Why not have Creatopias?

Writers describe the world after serious global warming as one where civilization collapses, bands of dispossessed roam the land, and daily pursuits are anything but creative. Need future life be so dystopian? No, it might well be creatopian.
     New kinds of houses could be developed that are very efficient and fun to live in. Delicious food could be synthesized in efficient bioreactors. The computer clouds could harbor all of civilization's knowledge and art for those who would roam there. We just have to reorient our creative thinking.