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

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

A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.

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

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

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

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.