Baker writes in his introduction, “More than anything, we promise to all through future billionaires.” But this control is not limited to the future – it is here, now. Their future views are news. They inform the limits of public imagination and political debate. The terms of such a conversation about the future face the current power. If we do not need to set these terms, we need to understand their views: their strange consequences, their horrible consequences, and their morals flaws and flaws related to their moral boxes.
To find out more, Ars grabbed with the baker.
ARS Technica: Your book is title More everything forever. Talking as a physician, is there anything like that?
Adam Baker: No, of course not. One of the things we know is always true about efficiency, is that it ends. If something is growing rapidly, you can just say, “Oh, okay, it’s not the last.” The classic example of nature is the development of the bacterial colony. If you have found a couple of bacteria and a really excellent, happy growth medium and a peatry dish, they will grow faster as long as they fill the peel dish, eat all the fire, and die, and then the growth will end.
Even in our daily life, we take advantage of it in many things. That way you make beer and alcohol. You put the yeast in the middle of the growth, it eats all the sugar and increases rapidly and eliminates alcohol, and then it dies due to its waste products and lack of food. Once it happens, then we drink it.
ARS Technica: If nothing else, ultimately someone always comes against thermodynamics laws, especially entrepreneurs.
Adam Baker: I have just found a magnet on my fridge or on which it is said that the heat is coming. Some Silicon Valley Visionary hates the laws of thermodynamics. Others claim that their views are inevitable thermodenia because they have misunderstood thermodynamics. But in any way, they have to be caught because it is the ultimate source of these limits. If you do not stop anything else, thermodynamics will stop you as the interstites are always increasing.