In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.

Anything goes and nothing matters.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fossil fuel economy to fabricate the hardware. Same with photovoltaic (solar) energy. We're going to be disappointed by what these things can do for us.

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.