In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

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

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.

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

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

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