James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.

James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.

Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.

The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

Wikipedia is an amazing construct. It's a commons that works. I don't know how Jimmy Wales came up with it. I'm sure all of us would have said, "This is the stupidest thing we've ever heard of. That'll never work in a million years."