The Committee to Nuke Elysium

“Is the treadmill of obsolescence and Moore’s Law-style progress
contributing significantly to the demise of our planet’s ecosystem,
in your opinion?”

*From the perspective of the 22nd Century? They don’t even
recognize that use of language. “Moore?” Who was that obscure
figure? They don’t even remember that period term “ecosystem.”

*They’d probably be pretty interested in the archaic metaphor
“treadmill.” A real, fully authentic treadmill was a horrible 19th
century prison punishment device, but in the 22nd century so much time has passed that the horror fades. So a treadmill can only perceived as Gothically romantic, like an Iron Maiden, or a rack, or water-boarding.

*I’ll be a little less arch here, and state that the Internet-of-Things won’t destroy everything. It won’t have the time, it’s too temporary. Nuclear weapons and carbon pollution and nano tech and GMO and gray goo and robots, that’s stuff of the caliber that can destroy everything. The IoT is a fad. You’ll outlive it – just like you outlived the WELL as a Bulletin Board System.