Ecosystem engineering’s also likely to be extremely difficult and expensive, even if we’ve got all the raw data necessary to implement it. One way or another this probably won’t end up being much of a thing to worry about in a post-Singularity future, or even one altered by sub-Singularity transformative technologies like advanced nanotech, but in the meantime, or given conservative assumptions about technological progress, it’s still a cost-benefit analysis worth making.
Ecosystem engineering’s also likely to be extremely difficult and expensive, even if we’ve got all the raw data necessary to implement it. One way or another this probably won’t end up being much of a thing to worry about in a post-Singularity future, or even one altered by sub-Singularity transformative technologies like advanced nanotech, but in the meantime, or given conservative assumptions about technological progress, it’s still a cost-benefit analysis worth making.