If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.