12,000 years ago food insecurity was a way of life. Without much "shelf-life" food, how the next meal was to be obtained was a near constant preoccupation.
Technology has transformed the issue from where can I find the next rabbit to kill, to a choice between TexMex, or Chinese.
Not newsworthy? It's context for understanding the changing role of technology.
Change has been present since the big bang. Life for humans seems easier as division of labor, $money, and invention progress.
Human life expectancy has tripled since Bronze. Biological evolution may be a minor factor, technology, modernization transforms our daily experience.
Technology provides unprecedented latitude, freedom from toil, leisure.
Not only is human culture changing, but the rate of change is increasing exponentially.
REUTERS illustration/John Devolle
Are we marginalizing government? For most of monetary history currency has been from government.
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is decentralized, not relying on a Gold standard, or "full faith and credit" of government.
Will, or can cryptocurrency render the U.S. $Dollar obsolete?
And what of the risks technology imposes?
Synthetic chemicals called per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances—PFAS—have been around since the 1940s ...
— in household products we use each day and some of the food we eat and the water we drink. In fact, their prevalence is so widespread that most Americans have traces of PFAS in their blood.
What technology do you most appreciate? Smartphone?
What nascent innovation signals the wave of the future? A.I. ?
Human remains from the early Bronze Age indicate an LEB of 24. In 2019 world LEB was 73.3
LEB, can be defined in two ways.
a) Cohort LEB is the mean length of life of a birth cohort (in this case, all individuals born in a given year)
b) Period LEB is the mean length of life of a hypothetical cohort More from Wikipedia
Technology has transformed the issue from where can I find the next rabbit to kill, to a choice between TexMex, or Chinese.
Not newsworthy? It's context for understanding the changing role of technology.
Change has been present since the big bang. Life for humans seems easier as division of labor, $money, and invention progress.
Human life expectancy has tripled since Bronze. Biological evolution may be a minor factor, technology, modernization transforms our daily experience.
Technology provides unprecedented latitude, freedom from toil, leisure.
Not only is human culture changing, but the rate of change is increasing exponentially.
REUTERS illustration/John Devolle
Are we marginalizing government? For most of monetary history currency has been from government.
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is decentralized, not relying on a Gold standard, or "full faith and credit" of government.
Will, or can cryptocurrency render the U.S. $Dollar obsolete?
And what of the risks technology imposes?
PFAS—“Forever Chemicals”—May Be the Biggest Water Problem Since Lead
Posted on October 22, 2024Synthetic chemicals called per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances—PFAS—have been around since the 1940s ...
— in household products we use each day and some of the food we eat and the water we drink. In fact, their prevalence is so widespread that most Americans have traces of PFAS in their blood.
What technology do you most appreciate? Smartphone?
What nascent innovation signals the wave of the future? A.I. ?
Human remains from the early Bronze Age indicate an LEB of 24. In 2019 world LEB was 73.3
LEB, can be defined in two ways.
a) Cohort LEB is the mean length of life of a birth cohort (in this case, all individuals born in a given year)
b) Period LEB is the mean length of life of a hypothetical cohort More from Wikipedia