Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

When the government tries to run innovation, sometimes it does it well and sometimes it doesn't. So setting up a situation where the market runs innovation, which is a cap-and-trade idea, may well have more flexibility.

One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.