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* Super-volcanos | * Super-volcanos | ||
* Gammaray bursts | * Gammaray bursts | ||
* 3D-printing technologies | * 3D-printing technologies | ||
** | ** Production of common goods | ||
::'''3D printers increasingly create a field of tension of security concerns and a sustainable economy.''' | |||
* | ::Lobbies could use pretextual arguments to ban 3D printing in public (not including companies of course). However, a matured technology enables cheap products and spare parts since it reduces packaging and transport. Also the goods are produced "on demand. This reduces overproduction (less raw materials, less energy) which also somewhat avoids recycling of unsold goods. | ||
::The problem is not the technology but the mentality, the people who want to own weapons. That reminds to the discussion about the NRA in the USA. Theoretically it is correct that weapon itself are no problem but the people using them. However in real life the availability of weapons increase violence and a social climate of fear. You can even see it at the US police officers. Potential racist tendencies alone could never explain this. There is a reason why those officers always hold their gun ready: they are themselves in fear to get shot. | |||
:: The murder rate (per 100.000 per year) in USA is 5. Germany has 0.7. USA has vast areas with low population numbers therefor a second look at cities is helpful. [[wp:List_of_cities_by_murder_rate|Detroit has a murder rate of 40]] while [[wp:de:T%C3%B6tungsrate_nach_L%C3%A4ndern#Liste_der_T.C3.B6tungsraten_2013_f.C3.BCr_ausgew.C3.A4hlte_Gro.C3.9Fst.C3.A4dte|Berlin has 1]]. | |||
::The obvious interpretation is that availability of weapons creates crimes out of an existing potential of violence. Therefor it should be task of politics to ensure social freedom by improving financial security (“minimum wage”), health insurance, integration of migrants, refugees and ex-inmates, and strongly promote education, so that the mentality of insecurity and hence the desire to own weapons – and therefor the potential misuse of 3D printers – is greatly reduced. | |||
:* [[wp:Organ_printing|Bioprinting]] a.k.a. tissue engineering (boosted by [[wp:Telomere|telomere regeneration]], [[Bertram_Navarre#Reality_soon_outruns_fiction_.3F|cell conversion]]) (problems: biological immortality, overpopulation, potential social destabilization) | |||
:** True reason why biological immortality is not intended: it is simply difficult to maintain because very cost-intensive. | |||
:** Conspiracy theory, [[Manual#TECH_NOTE_1|Hanna]]: The World Coalition Government realizes the extent of the ecological damage and has the ability to reverse a lot of it but has decided not to. It is in their best interest to maintain the centralization of wealth so the large population centers are preserved while "third world" regions are not. As a bonus the mounting death toll solves some of their overpopulation problems. (In that context Hanna also believes the WCG is doing less than it could to improve public healthcare.) | |||
'''The Technology Crimes Task Force (TCTF) is meant to identify technological threats and contain them if possible. [[#Science_prison|TCTF science prisons]] secure "problematic" knowledge while also providing a save place for further research. Some scenarios ("[[wp:Great_Filter|great filters]]") simply require ongoing research of all possible technologies so that mankind's survival is ensured.''' | '''The Technology Crimes Task Force (TCTF) is meant to identify technological threats and contain them if possible. [[#Science_prison|TCTF science prisons]] secure "problematic" knowledge while also providing a save place for further research. Some scenarios ("[[wp:Great_Filter|great filters]]") simply require ongoing research of all possible technologies so that mankind's survival is ensured.''' | ||