If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.