zompist bboard

What kind of 'progress'? Cultural, technological, scientific? The idea is to prevent technological progress, and that is kind of directly tied into scientific progress. Cultural "progress" is completely separate, and I don't really have any reason to stop that from happening, as it would not really...

Why do you need any explanation? Why is a world of aborigines, africans and indians less plausible than one like ours -- why are we not the fortunate ones? especially since, if you cut off the free energy gracefully given to the planet by its sun, everything on it suddenly gets much poorer. I am no...

Make everybody basically revert to a life of hunter-gathering in small groups/tribes? Reversion to a collection of small hunter-gather groups could work for a long time, but I don’t think it would hold for the entire population of the planet. Progress would likely be made at some point, hunter-gath...

Hello there everyone! I have been lurking around the board for quite some time now, but I’ve finally needed to come out of the shadows to ask a question: how can I reasonably stagnate progress? For the past while I have been undertaking a fairly large project (at least, large in my opinion) – develo...