1/ Find directional arrows of PROGRESS (arrows of inevitability) they don’t point to the company or the founder or the specific tech—but they never fail.
The more poetic the insight, the more likely it is to be true and the explanation harder to vary.
CONSIDER: energy
The more poetic the insight, the more likely it is to be true and the explanation harder to vary.
CONSIDER: energy
2/
The more we move into the FUTURE
the further we mine the PAST
When humankind first learned to release ENERGY to do WORK it was using recent vegetation fueling self or animals
(*that vegetation was weeks or months or years old)…
The more we move into the FUTURE
the further we mine the PAST
When humankind first learned to release ENERGY to do WORK it was using recent vegetation fueling self or animals
(*that vegetation was weeks or months or years old)…
3/ Next humankind learned to create fire and release ENERGY to do WORK by burning what the sun had stored in vegetation (wood + oils)
(*that was years or decades old)…
(*that was years or decades old)…
4/ Next…humankind learned to burn coal and create heat ENERGY to do WORK
(*that coal was hundreds or thousands of years old)
do you feel me building a rhythm here?…
(*that coal was hundreds or thousands of years old)
do you feel me building a rhythm here?…
5/ Here it comes
Oil + Natural gas? formed via animals that lived in oceans + were MILLIONS of years older than coal…
The further we go in the FUTURE
the further we mine the PAST
guess what comes next as we advance humanity forward?
do you really think it is today’s WIND? no
Oil + Natural gas? formed via animals that lived in oceans + were MILLIONS of years older than coal…
The further we go in the FUTURE
the further we mine the PAST
guess what comes next as we advance humanity forward?
do you really think it is today’s WIND? no
6/ it’s ELEMENTAL POWER that comes from naturally occuring URANIUM
They’re AT LEAST 2,200 MILLION years old + some are many billions of yrs old
when it comes to finding ways to extract ENERGY
to do useful WORK
the further we go in the FUTURE
the further we mine the PAST
QED
They’re AT LEAST 2,200 MILLION years old + some are many billions of yrs old
when it comes to finding ways to extract ENERGY
to do useful WORK
the further we go in the FUTURE
the further we mine the PAST
QED
7/ What humankind collectively discovers along the way as it comes up with conjectures + criticisms, trial + error, reducing ignorance + creating recipes we call knowledge…
are better technologies (literral know-how) to COERCE the ENERGY out to do WORK for us to fight ENTROPY.
are better technologies (literral know-how) to COERCE the ENERGY out to do WORK for us to fight ENTROPY.
8/ The sun itself s a giant fusion reactor
And one day we may just learn the controlled FUSION of Hydrogen (the OG element) into Helium which will be mining the big bang + the beginning of time (as we believe it to be)…
And one day we may just learn the controlled FUSION of Hydrogen (the OG element) into Helium which will be mining the big bang + the beginning of time (as we believe it to be)…
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