
Originally Posted by
bogan
Be hard to balance the threat vs the benefits of tribalism, if that extra work just goes into a war effort, yeh we're united, but we'd be worse off anyway.
Replicators would be sweet, long way off though, 3DP is still too energy intensive to be a good option even for single material products; let alone complicated materials and functional product.
I was more inferring that the Tribalism would happen anyway and would probably be the only way to get the entire world to unite in a common goal of the betterment of Humanity
and yes the Extra work would undoubtadley go into finding ways to kill them - yah know, for defence....
I hear that on the energy intensive side - Guess we need the Matter/Anti-Matter reactors of ST also 
but then Almost all new inventions are horribly inefficient - just compare the first internal combustion engines to the Fire Breathing monsters we now have.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
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