From: Philip Goetz (philgoetz@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2007 - 20:47:10 MST
On 1/4/07, Philip Goetz <philgoetz@gmail.com> wrote:
> If it doesn't, that would imply that economic growth is limited by
> energy supply.
Of course, this must be the case. I was imagining that in an
"information economy", people could continue to create wealth by
learning or creating new things, and imagining that such activity
takes little energy. But creating information does take energy.
There is a precise relationship between bits and energy, though I
don't understand it.
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