“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads”
The industrial revolution is still spinning. We’re stuck for the most part with a work week, physically showing up and covering the costs of maintaining ourselves in food and transport outside of the house. For many of us it makes little to no sense given that our jobs are hunting ideas on the antipodes of our mental planes ( oh I just won a Private Eye Pseud award:P)
So the big plans from our new Saviour in chief? Newer versions of the same old ways. Much as I dislike state mandated jobs I can at lease express a preference for the kind of boondoggles that I like. Where’s a decent broadband plan? Where’s the “iPhone in each pocket” speech? We’re so in love with tangible structures that even if you could prove 100% that schools could be run remotely , cheaper with higher grades and none of the lose of their precious “socialization I doubt we’d ever see such a thing. This looks more like a way to keep on living as we have rather than looking forward to something that may look like change:)
My usual reservations about the energy issue is that mandating technology or favoring it with tax policy can kill off truly innovative stuff. There’s a reason we have ethanol in gas and it’s not because it’s good for anything other than those that happen to grow the raw material.
How about getting rid of all the regulatory crap that has us traveling to “beg” permission to modify or uses the items as a trip reduction method?
Now were did we put all those engineering graduates?
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