Social control is best managed through fear.
The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.
The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.
Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.
In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.