A reaction to my latest substack article, with my response: Kelly Clark writes: "I appreciate this vision, but my question is will we have computers, let alone, the internet and AI, once we go through the Great Simplification? Give the variety of resources and supply chain complexity necessary to create a single chip, it’s hard for me to imagine how we will be able to maintain a high tech world once resource scarcity fully arrives." My response: Here's my perspective on this. The Global Simplification will not just be a uniform descent into indigenous lifestyles, but territorial and community driven adaptation to new circumstances. There will be chaos and conflict, but also regions with strong enough cultures and solidiraties, and even pockets of high modernity. Mutualization is the bridge between the entropic limitations of our world, and infrastructure buildup. And that goes certainly for communicative technology. We can have very cheap meshworks with repeated stations, with entirely different architectures (like Reticulum). A good example is the Bruderhof communities. Very communautarian, regenerative agriculture, everybody highly educated, and internet in the library or used professionally by their businesses. The last thing people will want to lose is their access to the noosphere, because it is the archive of solutions. Today in Thailand, when the poor get money, they don't improve their toilets or kitchens, but by mobile phones and motorcycles: mobility and communication are the highest on their agenda. Of course this is in a consumerist society that is 'eating the world'. But there are entirely other ways of looking at tech. https://t.co/JCcpqW0CKz