I joined the blogroll on dcblogs.com and for some odd reason, I've been mis-listed as "The Life of Red." I feel like Morgan Freeman in the Shawshank Redemption. "Maybe it's 'cause I'm Irish." I'm just as Irish as Morgan Freeman was in that movie. But I digress...

So with most of the country and the area bitching about the cost of gas and someone I know whispering global conspiracy and aliens on IM to me, it got me wondering. I actually brought it up with MM (the wife) about what would the world and political landscape be like if there was some technological breakthrough like in that horrible movie I never saw with Keanu, Chain Reaction. What if there was something that turned water into energy, or like Doc Brown's Mr. Fusion from Back to the Future 2?



Russia's attempts to use energy as a way to have more clout with Europe and the US would dissipate, and would we even care about the instability in the Middle East? Of course MM pointed out to me that it wouldn't happen. Entire global industries would be rendered obsolete, and billions upon billions of potential revenue would be wiped out.

Its amazing that big corporations act exactly like people. They're completely afraid of change. e.g. Witness the RIAA and the MPAA grasping to try to force consumers to comply with their business models instead of embracing new technologies to create new revenue streams. Didn't they learn anything from the cassette tape and VCR? I guess not.

So then there's the conspiracies that we could have renewable energy sources much sooner if it wasn't for the lobbiest out there. I'm amazed how much K Street has fucked over society and the world looking out for their special interests. I know, its not as clean cut and pat like that, but there's got to be a better way. I'll save that for another post though.

I would be curious to live in a world where some type or renewable fuel was abundant as the water on this earth, then what would we be doing? I guess if you took an optimistic approach, it would be like the world winning the lottery. One less thing to worry about, and with that, a step above savagery and a closer step towards the betterment of society. Of course the pessimistic point might be we would just be figuring out easier ways to blow each other up with it. I am still curious though what that world would be like. It would be cool to have a hoverboard.