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

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.

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

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.

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

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

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