Future planet-healing machines will also help us mend torn landscapes and restore damaged ecosystems. Mining has scraped and pitted the Earth; carelessness has littered it. Fighting forest fires has let undergrowth thrive, replacing the cathedral-like openness of ancient forests with scrub growth that feeds more dangerous fires. We will use inexpensive, sophisticated robots to reverse these effects and others. Able to move rock and soil, they will re-contour torn lands. Able to weed and digest, they will simulate the clearing effects of natural forest fires without danger or devastation. Able to lift and move trees, they will thin thick stands and reforest bare hills. We will make squ...

Future planet-healing machines will also help us mend torn landscapes and restore damaged ecosystems. Mining has scraped and pitted the Earth; carelessness has littered it. Fighting forest fires has let undergrowth thrive, replacing the cathedral-like openness of ancient forests with scrub growth that feeds more dangerous fires. We will use inexpensive, sophisticated robots to reverse these effects and others. Able to move rock and soil, they will re-contour torn lands. Able to weed and digest, they will simulate the clearing effects of natural forest fires without danger or devastation. Able to lift and move trees, they will thin thick stands and reforest bare hills. We will make squirrel-sized devices with a taste for old trash. We will make treelike devices with roots that spread deep and cleanse the soil of pesticides and excess acid. We will make insect-sized lichen cleaners and spray-paint nibblers. We will make whatever devices we need to clean up the mess left by twentieth-century civilization.

Most of what we will have the potential to do will be developed from newly emerging technology, that will transform our thinking, as it has been developing with technology at an accelerated rate, since the renaissance. It may be easier to deal with the physical aspects than the psychological, whatever the future holds there will be risks, but whenever we stop trying we just fade away. There's the idea that animals don't make a habit of shitting in their own nest. (Unless they're flies fleas, or yeast.) I suppose that proves we're not animals. Nature is the landlord, if we don't pay the rent we're likely to get evicted. If we are foolish enough to continue to act as if we are at war with nat...

Most of what we will have the potential to do will be developed from newly emerging technology, that will transform our thinking, as it has been developing with technology at an accelerated rate, since the renaissance. It may be easier to deal with the physical aspects than the psychological, whatever the future holds there will be risks, but whenever we stop trying we just fade away. There's the idea that animals don't make a habit of shitting in their own nest. (Unless they're flies fleas, or yeast.) I suppose that proves we're not animals. Nature is the landlord, if we don't pay the rent we're likely to get evicted. If we are foolish enough to continue to act as if we are at war with nature we will lose. We're proud of the fact we invented the wheel, but forget where our legs come from. Most of natures designs beat anything we can come up with hands down, its about time, we learned how valuable cooperation could be.
Dreaming.
While we may develop technology, it must be kept in the public domain. Having the ability to do something, can be hampered as we see in society today, by someone with the power and the motive to prevent it being done.
In the end there remains the idea that if something works it is more likely to last, and if it doesn't work is will be forgotten or be replaced by something that works better. Like the weather, it's easy to imagine or predict the weather next week, but we'll know what the weather will be like when it arrives.