I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

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.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

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.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

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