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

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.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.

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

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

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.