<story><title>Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_IKsz0GdgyLlO9-MAtpTPQ7vnfpN8Ng/view?usp=drivesdk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metaprogram</author><text>Prophetic words from John von Neumann in 1955:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;The carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by
industry&amp;#x27;s burning of coal and oil-—more than half of it
during the last generation—may have changed the atmosphere&amp;#x27;s composition sufficiently to account for a
general warming of the world by about one degree
Fahrenheit.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; (Page 512 &amp;#x2F; 666 &amp;#x2F; 9)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d4mi3n</author><text>He was such a visionary and had such a way with words. This may be nostalgia talking, but I&amp;#x27;ve struggled to find more contemporary writing on the level of Neumann&amp;#x27;s imagination. If anyone is aware of someone today doing similar work I&amp;#x27;d love to hear about it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_IKsz0GdgyLlO9-MAtpTPQ7vnfpN8Ng/view?usp=drivesdk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metaprogram</author><text>Prophetic words from John von Neumann in 1955:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;The carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by
industry&amp;#x27;s burning of coal and oil-—more than half of it
during the last generation—may have changed the atmosphere&amp;#x27;s composition sufficiently to account for a
general warming of the world by about one degree
Fahrenheit.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; (Page 512 &amp;#x2F; 666 &amp;#x2F; 9)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tim333</author><text>He was also the originator of the term singularity in the sense of tech:&lt;p&gt;“The ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life give the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.”&lt;p&gt;which some people worry about.</text></comment>