Quoth RedHeadPhoneGirl
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I know it's not what you intended to remind me of, but you just reminded me of a great book you should look into... it's by Isaac Asimove, titled "The Gods Themselves"
It only has three parts, part one "Against stupidity", part two "The Gods Themselves", part three "contend in vain". It's a great parallel to our current dependence on oil, except in the future it's our dependences on a device called the "electron pump" which is supposed to be a Godsend because it produces nearly unlimited power for practically nothing, the downside being that it changes the fundamental properties of matter in the area surrounding it, given enough time it will cause the end of the Earth and no one is willing to give it up because, after all, we're talking about at least a few centuries down the road... we'll surely have come up with a solution by then.
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