Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.