ext_215624 ([identity profile] doc-quixote.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] vicarz 2008-11-08 06:45 am (UTC)

Imagine the entire planet to play with yielding all the benefits of our current scientific knowledge with none of the restraints brought about by scarcity of resources?

I believe this is how we got the Renaissance, actually. The plague killed off some significant percentage of the population, and afterwards, the survivors suddenly found themselves with a surplus of time/food/etc, giving them the chance to get beyond subsistence farming.

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