James Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency, is an interesting person to follow. Kunstler’s rather downbeat, but well-informed, views are aired regularly on his Blog. I just read an interview he conducted with Infrastructurist that puts things like the state infrastructure planning, the future of oil and the current state of investment banking into perspective.
Here’s Kunstler on technology’s role in fixing our problems:
“I perceive one our biggest problems being techno-grandiosity. We are so full of ourselves and so sure that technology is going to rescue us and that we’re so good at it that we can defeat every problem that faces us. It’s a fatal hubris, and it’s subscribed to by an awful lot people who have something to say about the course we take in this country.”
Read the full interview here.
