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[Spudcote]

"In the case of electricity and running water, these technologies are visible only by their absence. When people nowadays lack electricity and plumbing, we don't think of it as a normal way of living. We call it camping out, or poverty. But electricity and plumbing are at the root of the most profound threats to the continuity of our civilization — climate change, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion and salinization, water-table depletion and water shortages, exhaustion of fossil fuels, and the bio-accumulation of various toxics in water, food, soil, and the bloodstreams of all living creatures. Electricity and plumbing aren't evil and wrong. But we've trained ourselves to take their presence too much for granted. We don't yet see technology as an ancient, comprehensive, continually unfolding set of artificial processes, spread through every level of society." - Bruce Sterling

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it is quite strange the way we have evolved... 

[Sam Salmon]

Having lived in 'developing countries' in the past I can see the truth of his statement.
In the next 20 years we'll see serious problems arise as China's economy expands-problems we can't imagine now.

[Spudcote]

I havn't lived in "developing areas", but I grew up quite close to them, and can personally say, it's getting a little scary looking ahead. 

[meca_357]

Definately agree with that statement whats coming ahead is tremendous .. it aint gonna be pretty...