yeah strictly speaking you’re right, but also it does indeed require physical resources to have qualitative development.
consider the following (somewhat abstract) argument:
You build software, and eventually you will have developed all software that can be encoded on a disk with 10^(10^15) bytes of storage space. At this point, you can’t build new software because there’s literally not more silicon on earth’s crust to build more disks. Therefore, even something as purely qualitative as developing software will eventually reach physical boundaries. Thus there can be no infinite growth in a physical-finite system.
The only way to have infinite growth IMHO is human settlement of outer space; and upon closer examination (which i won’t do here), it is even necessary for humans to settle outer space in the long run.
yeah strictly speaking you’re right, but also it does indeed require physical resources to have qualitative development.
consider the following (somewhat abstract) argument:
You build software, and eventually you will have developed all software that can be encoded on a disk with 10^(10^15) bytes of storage space. At this point, you can’t build new software because there’s literally not more silicon on earth’s crust to build more disks. Therefore, even something as purely qualitative as developing software will eventually reach physical boundaries. Thus there can be no infinite growth in a physical-finite system.
The only way to have infinite growth IMHO is human settlement of outer space; and upon closer examination (which i won’t do here), it is even necessary for humans to settle outer space in the long run.
Thus i am all for Mars settlement.