Future Ben

I’m probably just in a bad mood today, but this report from The Interdisciplinary Canter for Technology Analysis & Forecasting at Tel-Aviv University really annoys me. I’m not entirely sure why though. It may be somewhat accurate for all I know, the annoying part is the commoditization of things that haven’t happened yet. Every investor wants little chips that do things better and cheaper so that they can reduce overhead and raise profit. If a nano/biotech revolution did sweep the world, they don’t understand that it could also destroy commerce. Imagine self replicating and self repairing medical diagnostic equiptment. How do you sell it when anybody can just make a copy? The ultimate technologies will be not only accesible but manufacturable by the smallest mountain village. And the only comodities will be innovation and raw materials. The true revolution will be a reconciliation between industrial and agrarian. And that will be all kinds of bad for multinational corporations and globalization. It is my fervent hope that every single widget they are hoping for is rendered obsolete by something they couldn’t possibly imagine. And all of their planing and panel discussion will have wrought nothing but their doom! As long as I’m dreaming, I would be the creator of that technology. And I would laugh…into the night. I am also bothered by all of those little technologesque illustrations so liberally applied. Those are way tacky.