The development is likely inevitable, unless perhaps the anarcho-primitivists would somehow find a way to force us to abolish industrialization, resulting in a notable decline of the human population. Earth may only be able to support as little as one hundredth of today's human population if we switched to hunter-gatherer societies.

Bill Joy's Why the future doesn't need us is a good read on the subject of criticism of future technology.

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