Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.