"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
A suburb eating robot. The two front legs crush and process the suburban houses, and turn them into materials ready for recycling (naturally, being giant robots, the compacted materials are fired off in missiles to the recycling plants). The middle…
Energy investment bank CEO Russell Simmons on what happens if (when?) India and China develop like Japan did in the ’50s and ’60s. “If that happens, then we need to be prepared for for one of two things: either bringing…
Sliding down Hubbert’s Curve….
From Peak Oil Debunked comes a quite wonderful rant about Peakists, those peak oil adherents who delight in predicting gloom. For those of you just coming to peak oil, you’re going to want to understand the most basic concept of…
Excerpts from an online chat with futurist / sf author Bruce Sterling on the State of the World 2008. Moderator: The real question is how adaptable or fragile civilian institutions are to a rapid rise in the price of oil/rapid…