Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

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

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Information wants to be free.

This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.