It's often said that necessity is the mother of invention and that's very true. However, the rate of technological progress must also correlate with the number of people coming up with ideas, and the more people there are, the more ideas will be generated. I wonder if anyone has ever performed an analysis of the rate of technological progress versus population growth.
Now we know the world is overcrowded, which causes an adverse impact on the environment, and many advocate we reduce our numbers (which technological progress itself causes through us having fewer children), but I wonder whether this in itself would slow the rate of progress in a feedback loop.
Saw this yoga advert in a shop window in town yesterday.
A bot old now - pre-lockdown - but, for me, relaxation involves no movement whatsoever and one's eyes being closed.
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