As we have lost our pattern languages I find the internet the most promising tool to rediscover old and timeless patterns, to reconnect them with new patterns for our time, to create new and beautiful pattern languages to heal our communities.

Still, I also recently came across a dis-encouraging comment by John Michael Greer recently, an enormously well informed person and author. He made the following statement:

“Villager, computers don’t build themselves, they don’t power themselves, they don’t mine the raw materials to make their own spare parts for themselves, and so on. They’re simply the final hurrah of the age of cheap abundant energy, and will go away as the immensely complex and energy-hungry infrastructure needed to support them becomes too costly to keep running. Thus I don’t think that the invention of computers is anything like a game-changer.” See:

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.no/2013/05/the-shape-of-time.html

Is this era of information technology really soon going to vanish with the ongoing decline and peak-oil?

If this really is true all the work of the p2p-foundation will be in vain as well.

Then civilization will be utterly lost, as we have already lost our pattern languages, and with the loss of information technology we will loose our possibility to share our knowledge, to build a network of global villages.

Hope someone with knowledge can give me a clue about how tomorrow will look like! Are we really going to loose everything?