Arthur Hanson
Well-known member
Being an environmentalist for years I have had the theory that man has become a cancer on the planet in that like the definition of cancer mankind has become uncontrolled growth and although our technologies have allowed our population to increase dramatically over the carrying capacity of the planet by creating a massive imbalance in so many of our natural systems that it was only a matter of time before disaster struck and now it has. Just like the many technologies that have allowed man to increase our population dramatically, we have two choices, advance our technologies to change the balance point or reduce our numbers dramatically. Man has literally has hard choices to make and the tech sector over a whole range of technologies is absolutely key. Since man has chosen not to rebalance its impact on the ecosystem, like any ecosystem or any system for that matter, the system will balance itself in so many ways it will be almost impossible to predict the outcomes and in an ecosystem as complex as earth, our ability to predict the numerous outcomes is almost impossible. We have already seen dramatic changes that would normally take centuries occur in decades or even less.
It is now up to all of us to see how we are going to cope with the changes we have created and change the balance points, whether it is dramatically lowering the population or changing the structure of all of our society to dramatically increase the long term carrying capacity of the planet. Diseases that strike like the coronavirus have been just one of the ways that our ecosystem would deal with imbalances and climate change will be another. There are also a whole string of possibilities that range from the benign to the catastrophic. Many models have been built and the tech sector has allowed us to create many more and more sophisticated models every year. It is now up to us to make wise, hard decisions, for if we don't, nature will make many of them for us and has already started. SemiWiki is an ideal place to start for a semiconductor design is essentially a very small closed environment to deal with and many of the tools developed and methodology can be scaled up massively by the very tools it has created. What we need to develop is a master EEDA(Earth Ecosystem Design Automation) for the plane and appropriate tools. The challenge is ours and any comments or additions are welcome, for in this short space, all I have done is to hopefully open our field of vision.
I feel adapting EDA in numerous and widespread ways is the solution to many challenges before us, since much of the logic has much wider applications for those with vision and creativity and the opportunities are to great not to go forward.
a-j-hanson@att.net
It is now up to all of us to see how we are going to cope with the changes we have created and change the balance points, whether it is dramatically lowering the population or changing the structure of all of our society to dramatically increase the long term carrying capacity of the planet. Diseases that strike like the coronavirus have been just one of the ways that our ecosystem would deal with imbalances and climate change will be another. There are also a whole string of possibilities that range from the benign to the catastrophic. Many models have been built and the tech sector has allowed us to create many more and more sophisticated models every year. It is now up to us to make wise, hard decisions, for if we don't, nature will make many of them for us and has already started. SemiWiki is an ideal place to start for a semiconductor design is essentially a very small closed environment to deal with and many of the tools developed and methodology can be scaled up massively by the very tools it has created. What we need to develop is a master EEDA(Earth Ecosystem Design Automation) for the plane and appropriate tools. The challenge is ours and any comments or additions are welcome, for in this short space, all I have done is to hopefully open our field of vision.
I feel adapting EDA in numerous and widespread ways is the solution to many challenges before us, since much of the logic has much wider applications for those with vision and creativity and the opportunities are to great not to go forward.
a-j-hanson@att.net
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