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I predict we will get lots of big stuff done with lots of small stuff. Eric Drexler, call your office.

Everything in the video is a projection of the fears of dystopias dreamed of during the height of industrialization. None of these projections take the power of accelerating technology into account at all. The kind of tech that may very well radically begin decentralizing power and wealth in th...

@grumpydiesel Here here!

If there are no socialist countries now, and none in the past, doesn't this make socialism itself a grand fiction? One that has all sorts of opportunities to come into being, but hasn't? If so, why? Why hasn't this grand fiction ever come true? I suggest that the flaw lies in the mismatch bet...

Eating Although I have been known to eat desserts next to the computer while on the Internet. :)

I remember learning how Tolkien came up with The Lord of the Rings. When he had Bilbo find that ring, it was just something he threw into The Hobbit. Just another bit of magic. Then, he started asking himself what that ring was and where it came from. And the rest was history.

So cool it's awesome. Accelerating technology at work.

I adored Connections and The Day the Universe Changed. These shows catalyzed an already strong interest in science and technology in me. Burke is making a very strong point here on the nature of accelerating technology, one that Ray Kurzweil has relatively recently argued for in his seminal boo...

I believe in biological evolution and cultural evolution. Almost everything that exists in the universe was not planned by anything or anybody. The very tiny (relative) number of exceptions involve individual human beings planning very very specific actions. But even most of these ramify into ...