we're screwed

Have you seen this? Mark Morford of SFGate points to this article in his column today:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7203633?rnd=1113510963695&has-player=false

it's pretty scary. It also brings up an interesting point of view about the future- and in thinking about Hitchhikers and Star Wars and by association, Sci Fi in general, it's funny to think that the popular vision of the future is one dominated by increases in technology, perhaps to the point of making over the planet into one giant indusrial/mechanical city. But this guy is saying maybe the future is really going to be the opposite - the loss of all the 20th century technology we've created, a return to more basic living - and not because we want to, because we'll be forced to.