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| Personal background |
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| I design integrated circuits for wireless applications, and have lived in Tempe, Arizona since 1984. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The idea of a period of "technological adolescence," accompanied by social instability in a civilization, was expressed in a 1975 text by the astronomer Fred Hoyle. He associated intelligence with the aggressive competition inherent in the natural selection of species.
I think life is common in the physical universe, and that there has been intelligent life besides us. Crucially, I think the difficulties humanity faces may also be universal. It seems any civilization must reach a point when the competition and aggression of its youth (competition for food and scarce resources, greed, short term thinking) runs into the power of its accumulated knowledge. It may be rare for civilizations to survive this phase of development.
It thus seems worthwhile, maybe urgent, to try to find evidence for life that made it past the stage of technological adolescence, despite the low odds of detection. |
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