Re: <nettime> Franco Berardi & Geert Lovink: A call to the Army of Love

John:

> Order and energy availability go hand-in-hand. Even the

> persistence of information/knowledge into the future is directly

> dependent on energy (re)sources to maintain it.

Indeed, thermodynamics is an important "theory" but, as many have noticed, life-in-general seems to defeat the "2nd Law" everyday.

HUMANS, who are clearly different from other living things, further confound thermodynamics -- which means that however "stupid" we might be, we are still the only beings "smart" enough to come up with something as useful as the 2nd Law.

> Projections anyone?

Let me refer you to the LONGNOW foundation and its affiliate, LONGBETS.

Danny Hillis, co-founder of both, is responsible for PREDICTION #605 --

"By December 31, 2020, synthetic solar energy (fusion) will have been shown to be a technically feasible, by an experiment demonstrating a controlled fusion reaction producing more harnessable energy than was used to ignite it."

Until then, fossil fuels (i.e. stored solar energy) will just have to do . . .

Mark Stahlman

Brooklyn NY

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