Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

So much technology, so little talent.

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.