After all, SETI is essentially a search for technological waste products: waste heat, waste light, waste electromagnetic signals. We merely have to posit that successful civilizations don’t produce such waste, and the failure of SETI is explained.
[Nice theory. It works for me because I’ve always loved “undetectable technology”. I want my technology to disappear into the use of the item as much as possible.]
Source: The Technium
turnings :: daniel berlinger 