not until we can meet our energy needs (which we will be able to do with nano-engineered solar panels and fuel cells, which can capture the only 1% of 1% of sunlight that falls on the earth to meet 100% of our energy needs in a clean, renewable fashion), overcome disease and death, overcome poverty, and a few other problems. Only technology - advanced, nanoscale, distributed, decentralized, self-organizing, increasingly intelligent technology - has the scale to solve these problems that the human species has struggled with for eons.
November 29, 2008

