This is a good sign

There was more than the usual amount of interest in this post at Instapundit.  A reading this close to 100 is really quite good.

The story touches on a theme of this blog:  Why has progress slowed down so much?  We are in a rut.

It seems to come to the conclusion that we've become too risk averse.  It's a female trait, by the way.  Men tend to more the risk takers than the women.

Taking risks does not require one to be rash.  Best to have prudence.  But you can't rest on your laurels, or you risk something even more.

An example from history that is mentioned in the book Mining The Sky--- the Chinese burned their discovery fleet that could have reached Europe.  This discovery of another route to China would have aced out Columbus' mission.  However, since the Chinese discovery of a way to Europe never happened , the Chinese went into relative decline.  The same could happen to us because we did something similar with some of our programs, like Apollo and the molten-salt reactor.

It's good to see the interest in the subject.