(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

Open-source is a means of production.

Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.