feeding our global brain

I recently wrote a comment to a post related to the problems of our energy and material hungry civilization, and how one man’s living style can make a huge difference. My ideas as seen below where I’ve copied that comment, have to do with how we are consuming resources from our physical environment, in order to produce more and more information (feed our global brain). For more on this, keep reading below….

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To buy new socks when you get holes on your current ones, or buy baked bread, buys you thinking time (usually in front of a computer). It seems to me that in the industrial revolution we altered the physical world around us, in order to have it supporting us during the next step (which we’re taking currently). That support is getting your socks and bread ready, so that you can sit in front of the computer and take that next step, towards the inside-out information revolution. This of course doesn’t mean it is sustainable, since we get into the viscious cycle of adding more and more stress in the physical world around us (energy,materials), in order to feed our global brain.

Whether the solution is to take one small step back or a big one like you did, or just wait until we collapse under our own weight, is debatable. I think there is a hope of a sustainable energy and material hungry civilization, through efficient production of both these under newly discovered technologies resulting through the information revolution.