I was hesitant to drop this in the science category.
In 1989, I concluded that the life-expectancy of Industrial Civilization is horridly short. This hypothesis was defined in terms of a measurable index, world energy-use per person, and named the “transient-pulse theory of Industrial Civilization.” I sketched its maximum point at 1990, followed by a persistent decline (see Note 1). Back then, however, I had no data to support this claim.
That’s the first paragraph of the paper I found.
Thank Adult Swim for bumming my world a little more with some guy’s predictions on the ultimate fall of human civilization.
