Month March 2010

Thinking big

China wants to connect its high-speed rail to Europe. It would be largest infrastructure project in history Meanwhile, the US limps far behind on high speed rail (as well as on mass adoption of renewable energy, internet infrastructure and speed,…

Stewart Brand. From counterculture to cyberculture

Peak Energy has a voluminous post on the life and times of Stewart Brand. From the Merry Pranksters to the Whole Earth Catalog to the Well, then the Global Business Network and now his Environmental Heresies and Whole Earth Discipline,…