As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

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

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.