Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.