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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I do think that eventually, humans will start to retreat back to nature. We are already seeing it with green movements. That is not to say that all scientific progress will stop, but it will get to a point where we start to question what we need to know to make our species healthy and happy, and what we don't need to learn to avoid the negative consequences of discovery.
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I kind of 1/2 agree with this. I agree that we will retreat back to nature, but not in a regressive way. I agree (and hope) that research into useless things like hair growth and whether or not my phone can cook my food will die away as we focus on things we NEED vs WANT.
However, I do think that the things we need will still involve high level technology, and our retreat to nature will come more in the form of harnessing clean energy and using asteroids and other celestial bodies to mine for resources vs tearing apart our own home. You could maybe move manufacturing off-world to stop the pollution produced by it from actually impacting Earth.