Technology's Limits

There is already a race to find lithium for smart phone batteries. Almost all new technology has a major electronics component somewhere. Increasingly, the new designs require rare earth elements which are being gobbled up. Even copper, used in almost all circuits, has a foreseeable limit to low cost supplies.

Therefore, the idea that in technology lies the solutions to all of humankind's problems must increasingly be questioned.

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