I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a source that could help convince me that technological progress and ideas are unlimited. — Maximum7

The development of knowledge might be unlimited in theory, given the vast scale and complexity of reality. At the least it's hard to imagine ever learning everything.

However, in practice, technological progress on Earth is dependent on human beings, a species with some serious psychological issues. Human beings would be the limiting factor on technological progress.

Imagine that I souped up my car so it would go 1,000mph. Sounds impressive until you realize that I'm not capable of controlling a car at that speed. In the development of this super car I'd sooner or later find the speed at which I lose control, crash and die. End of technological progress.

Is there ANYONE out there who still doesn't consider this the issue of our times? — Xtrix

It might be more accurate to put it this way. Climate change is a symptom of "the issue" of our times, our relationship with knowledge.

To illustrate, imagine that we somehow fixed climate change completely right now, and also developed a new method of totally free unlimited clean energy.

That fixes climate change, but the price tag would be that the economy would take off like a rocket and so we'd been burning through non-renewable resources at a faster pace, civilization expansion would accelerate leading to quicker species extinction and so on etc.

In other words, fixing climate change would just move the problem from one category to another.

Climate change is a product of the primitive relationship with knowledge which characterized the 19th century industrial revolution. Full speed ahead at all costs, more is always better, don't bother to worry about the consequences etc. We're still doing that with the current emerging technologies like AI, genetic engineering.

Until we can wrap our minds around a more mature relationship with knowledge, we're going to keep creating more and bigger problems at an accelerating rate. Take climate change off the table, something else replaces it.

Could someone please direct us to quality content philosophical threads by the mods?

I don't know if we've given the functionality enough of a chance--ideally it should begin to indicate those members who make good contributions and who have been around for a while--but I'm interested to know what you think about it. — jamalrob

We'll know the mod team is interested in quality content when they start creating some.