The Japanese Drive On The Left Side

A World With A Sudden Limit On Air Travel Would Be Tremendously Different From The One We Live In Now.

The Embrace Of A New Technology By Ordinary People Leads Inevitably To Its Embrace By People Of Malign Intent.

The Way I Think Of It, Economics And Ecology Occupy Two Intellectual Silos, Isolated From Each Other. Even When They Do Take Each Other Into Consideration, It's Not Uncommon For Ecologists To Spout Absolute Nonsense About Economics, And Vice Versa.

A Whole Bunch Of Big Technological Shocks Occurred When Asian Innovations - Paper, Gunpowder, The Stirrup, The Moldboard Plow And So On - Came To Europe Via The Silk Road.

Major Power And Telephone Grids Have Long Been Controlled By Computer Networks, But Now Similar Systems Are Embedded In Such Mundane Objects As Electric Meters, Alarm Clocks, Home Refrigerators And Thermostats, Video Cameras, Bathroom Scales, And Christmas-tree Lights - All Of Which Are, Or Soon Will Be, Accessible Remotely.