Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.

Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about your movements. It's about who you are with and what you will do next.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.