I think unfortunately we already know what the future of cinema will look like: https://youtu.be/L_432I88eVQ?t=1205 I struggle to take TikTok seriously, but then I think back to those thinkpieces (circa 2007) about the inanity of Twitter. Oh how naive we were! We fresh graduates with our needless skills in longform writing and analyical rumination.
I'll have to check into hat book by Vaclav Smil; I read his "Creating the Twentieth Century" and found it fascinating - he discusses the Haber-Bosch process in that one as well. In the first chapter of Benjamin Labatut's "When We Cease to Understand the World" there is a passage discussing one thinker (I can't remember who, sorry) who worried that, due to the enormous amount of artificially-produced nitrogen introduced by people into the biosphere due to Haber-Bosch, if humanity ever suffers a drastic reduction in population there will not be enough human effort necessary to stem the growth of plants on the earth; the word will turn into a monstrous jungle, and the remaining people will have to hack their way through ever-increasing underbrush to get anything done. A grim, if rather surreal, envisioning of the end of civilization.
I think unfortunately we already know what the future of cinema will look like: https://youtu.be/L_432I88eVQ?t=1205 I struggle to take TikTok seriously, but then I think back to those thinkpieces (circa 2007) about the inanity of Twitter. Oh how naive we were! We fresh graduates with our needless skills in longform writing and analyical rumination.
I'll have to check into hat book by Vaclav Smil; I read his "Creating the Twentieth Century" and found it fascinating - he discusses the Haber-Bosch process in that one as well. In the first chapter of Benjamin Labatut's "When We Cease to Understand the World" there is a passage discussing one thinker (I can't remember who, sorry) who worried that, due to the enormous amount of artificially-produced nitrogen introduced by people into the biosphere due to Haber-Bosch, if humanity ever suffers a drastic reduction in population there will not be enough human effort necessary to stem the growth of plants on the earth; the word will turn into a monstrous jungle, and the remaining people will have to hack their way through ever-increasing underbrush to get anything done. A grim, if rather surreal, envisioning of the end of civilization.