Great question! My answer .. a pretty significant gobal disaster either natural or Man Made...
One that basically forces us to reboot.. the best i can think of (that would cause least suffering or damage) is a polar shift that renders all technology useless...
it may sound sad but great change is needed and most people are still flocking to the cities and adding to the problems... I can’t imagine what else would lead the massess to change... unless we can so it slowly step by step... but i wonder if the planet can carry us that long...
I agree on the disaster part... not so sure if a polar shift would be best though. Losing all technology would just suck! But maybe you're right, and that's exactly what we need. Though in the end we can't pick the disaster that strikes us. So it may well be a man-made one, or several accumulated ones.
You right,
That would be harsh!
U know i just realised my almost
Very first steem post was a story i wrote exactly about this! I chose a very different natural disaster And wrote how we were all saved by a very special company!
Quite a fun read actually!
https://steempeak.com/story/@eco-alex/a-glimpse-back-to-the-future-a-short-story
Awesome story, and an interesting way of looking at that very special company. I don't know enough about them to feel one way or another, but merely the fact that they are publicly traded raises my suspicion... However, that has little to do with you story. Great job, and thanks for sharing. I would never have looked at it otherwise, it's been so long that you posted it.
thanks brother! Yes it is a bit far fetched,, and of course it makes a company that many are very sceptical about looks quite wonderful.. but the truth IS that if they wanted to do this .,., in a far fetched theory at least.. they could.. the power of the data they have is really incredible and if used in the right way could indeed do much of what i described.. They are also working on many of the thing i spoke about, such as AI, driverless transport, free internet for all from the sky.. and much more besides...
anyways!.. thanks for your comment, im glad you read it.. <3
agreed. sometimes things don't change until the way things are becomes untenable. in this way we live in a society addicted to that which is killing us and, like an addict, things wont change unless we hit rock bottom. rock bottom might be "forced upon us" collectively by mother earth and it may be too late at that point. thanks for sharing your thoughts!