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The bio age!

 
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Hey,

I think that it is pretty clear the the digital age will end in this century/next, and the human race will turn to bio engineering, to harness biological systems for construction, food, mining, energy, communications, plumbing, water, manufacturing, waste management,

I just wonder about how the ecological impact of potentially disturbances of ratios of living things could effect the nutrient and life cycles,

I also wonder what jobs would be created or become redundant!

does anyone else think of these things?

And if you do not understand what I am talking about that's fine, Please do not worry about it!






 
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I suspect that if we're still alive at the end of the century (which I think is most likely but not assured), all biological systems on the planet will be profoundly disrupted by our actions and there will be essentially nothing that we would recognize as unmanaged ecology. And I suspect basically all jobs will be redundant. Honestly, 80 years is so far into the future at this point that I don't think anyone can reasonably predict what things will be like except in such broad strokes.
 
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