Dalmatian House
Daiphal
Thursday, April 3, 2018
with The Premise
Ted Kaczynski
Martin Pastoretti
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Pages: 512
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; January 2, 1993 Edition: (Book format: Hardcover)
ISBN: 0060441599
“We need a new kind of thinking and we need it quickly,” wrote Stanley Kubrick in his superb directorial debut and first science-fiction feature, 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film many critics consider among the greatest ever made. Looking back, Kubrick wrote in his own book, “The new science was coming along,” but in 1963, “people in the world of science were much more conservative and cliquish than they are now..”) we can view the human body as a cohesive, interconnected whole—a view that’s changing with the emerging science of systems biology and that might help explain the paradox of “peak oil” so long predicted for the most efficient energy resource available: oil. Looking at the human body as a highly integrated and interdependent system is, of course, utterly different from the way we’ve been taught in school to think about the body. Yet it’s also a view that will prove invaluable in understanding the most devastating energy crisis that’s ever faced human society: “peak oil.” (The oil peak refers to the point at which the rate of global oil consumption—as well as that of its many substitutes—is in a state of long-term decline. We’ll look at that in more detail in a moment, but first let’s take a brief look at the mechanics of the system.) In fact, as we’ll soon see, the way we traditionally have been taught to think about the body is the very reason that the transition to a new energy system will be so difficult. Traditionally, we think of the body as a be359ba680
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