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

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

Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

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

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.