Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

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

The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

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.

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