We're All Gonna Die!

Entering a dark age of innovation

This is interesting.

"But according to a new analysis, this view couldn't be more wrong: far from being in technological nirvana, we are fast approaching a new dark age. That, at least, is the conclusion of Jonathan Huebner, a physicist working at the Pentagon's Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California. He says the rate of technological innovation reached a peak a century ago and has been declining ever since."

Found this reading The Corner this morning. There has been some ongoing discussion about the changing demographics of Europe, Canada, and America. (More on Europe's population decline and its effects here and here.) Part of that includes discussion on the effects of gay marriage legalization, but mostly the discussion is about the impacts of rapidly declining birthrates in Europe and Canada. (American birthrates are declining much more slowly, and have been fairly stable at right about replacement rate for the last several years.) Interesting stuff, although the conclusions you draw may vary.

*Quick aside, for the nit-pickers out there: Yes, I know we are all going to die someday. No one gets out of life alive. But the article seems to imply a slow, cold, miserable death in the dark as science comes to a screeching halt; not dying as a happily old man in my bed, a demise I prefer over the former.