Civilisation: its history and underlying dependencies on inadequately wrangled technologies. A way forward https://www.azadmaidan.in/t/civilisation-its-history-and-underlying-dependencies-on-inadequately-wrangled-technologies-a-way-forward/116 the extensive consumption of materials, stretching both production and transformation, has reached a level where the pattern of global climate change, and with it the ability of the soil to nurture vegetation, including those useful to humans, either directly or as a resource for animal husbandry, endangers the survival of a majority of living species.
The wheel, lead to a host of inventions. Among these was the development of wheeled weapons carriers.need to lay down road, We call this recent period the industrial age, and it is characterised by the establishment of very large centralised production facilities, using techniques that have enabled such activities to produce on a far larger scale than those accustomed to the earlier cottage industry could even imagine. The per capita energy and material consumption seen in modern industrial civilisation has come at a salutary cost, impacting the ambient temperature and albedo of the entire planet, a climate crisis
The per capita energy and material consumption seen in modern industrial civilisation has come at a salutary cost, impacting the ambient temperature and albedo of the entire planet, a climate crisis
More than simply goods, it is also the web of services around manufacturing, services and residing that can transform to hyperlocal. In fact, as described by E. F. Schumacher, “development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential”.
This is possible, and in fact is already being demonstrated, because of the development of durable smart communication infrastructures, both of devices and of networking, that have diminished the need to be physically present at the very large infrastructural resource centres that were a stipulation just a few decades back.
To summarise, the transformation to hyperlocal is perfectly in consonance with the state of the present technological society. - taken from azadmaidan.in