The Most Important Story of Our Time — and the Only Journalist Covering It

pjmedia h/t Instapundit

quote:

The hyperlocal news site New Haven Independent seems an unlikely place to find the most in-depth, understandable, up-to-date news about nanotechnology. Yet there it is. Nestled among features about the gelato queen of New Haven and how to get the city to fix your cracked sidewalks — the meat and potatoes of local journalism — you’ll find the work of Gwyneth Shaw, the only independent journalist covering the nanotech revolution full-time in language that we all can understand.

Comment:

One of the original purposes of this blog was to be able to predict the future, but that has become somewhat muted.  Anyway, one of the first posts in the blog was about a Speculist Survey about what will be the next big thing in technology.  Nanotech came first.  However, I disagreed, saying energy should be at the top because it impacts everything else.

I suspect too many people don't realize or recognize the significance of energy to our standard of living.  More importantly, to our very survival.  Ninety percent of the calories we eat come from fossil fuels.  Without fossil fuels, we would starve because modern agriculture requires it.  Yet, there are those, such as our President, who will try to stop fossil fuel usage.  This is like committing suicide.  The ignorance that we are heading towards the cliff is what is enabling this potential tragedy.

Despite Glenn Reynold's interest in high tech, I suspect he is part of the problem because he seems to think that nanotech is number one, when it won't matter if the factories and the labs won't have the power to develop this tech if the replacement for fossil fuels isn't found first.

People need to wake up before it is too late.

update:

a quote from the story, which I can relate to

The trouble is, Shaw says, she is writing for the layperson and she is not certain enough laypeople read her work. I found this to be true when I wrote about nanotech full-time. There is an insular community of scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors all talking to one another in an echo chamber. She would rather write for people like herself — a concerned consumer and parent.

“That’s tough because I do feel like at this point we have some important, interesting, pretty in-depth, nuanced coverage,” Shaw says. “It’s just that nobody reads it.”

If you are going to have an Army of Davids, you'd better help them find some slingshots.