[quote=umbrarchist;1461245][size=3]Here is where I have a problem with this dude and probably the majority of people.

One thing about Star Trek and most good science fiction is that it is FUTURE ORIENTED. Plenty of people have barely gotten their thinking beyond 1900. The 20th Century has given us a phase change in knowledge, technology and potentials and to make a comparison to any human civilization before 1900 is nonsense. Before 1900 we did not know the structure of the atom though the Greeks had thought about the concept. Before 1900 we did not know there were other galaxies. But this clown is going to talk about what NO civilization is going to do in the next 300 years. There can never be another FIRST MOON LANDING.

The reason we haven't made good use of the technology is that most people can't figure out what to do with it and the corporations just want to brainwash us into buying junk designed to fall apart. So what kind of society/culture we could really create with this technology is TOTALLY UNKNOWN.

Our nitwit economists can't even tell us what we have lost on depreciation of automobiles over the last 50 years so what sense does it make to speculate what a society with replicators would be like? I haven't bothered going to an auto show in 30 years because I don't give a damn what the cars look like since the laws of physics don't change and human beings don't change shape. So most of the changes in cars are just marketing bullshit like changing women's fashions. But how many people think like that?

[there was a book you posted a link to bout something about this sometime ago, . whats it called again? something about the tricking of the modern man or something, about how manufacturers where producing crap on purpose. what 's the book called?