by Graham Palmer | Dec 9, 2020 | Energy, Futurism, Narratives, Technology
Richard Koo argues that the real reason to study macroeconomics is to be able to identify so-called fallacy-of-composition problems. This is the phenomenon of the right behaviour at the individual level leading to a less favourable outcome at the collective level. One...
by Graham Palmer | May 31, 2017 | Technology
The speciation of technology In the evolving technology space, there can be a tendency to assume that a single class of technology will come to dominate. The stand-out example is Tony Seba’s projection that all new road vehicles—buses, cars, vans, trucks —will be...
by Graham Palmer | May 23, 2017 | EROI, Technology, Uncategorized
The competitive struggle between technology and resource depletion The study of EROI may be of little more than academic interest except for two factors. Energy extraction has conformed to Ricardo’s ‘best first’ principle, meaning that the easiest resources to extract...
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