The other day someone wrote me to ask, “so what is beyond oil?” The answer, I replied, is pretty obviously a lot of things, which taken together will add up. First and foremost is rethinking and redesigning for more livable and sustainable community, particularly the retrofitting of cities and design of new communities […]

It has been a while since a blog entry, not because there is nothing to say, but because there is too much.
William Irwin Thompson, the great historian, philosopher, futurist once said that history was accelerating at such a rate that world-changing events would begin to happen in months, weeks, even all at once. Perhaps […]

Apparently there is a custom followed by some French youths to incite violence, often involving innocent strangers, film the violent acts, and publish the resulting video on the web. The term for this is “Happy Slapping.”
French authorities, understandably, want to stop this.
They’ve picked the wrong method: a law against any posting of violent […]

I noticed a CNN article about a Japanese robot serving tea today.
Bill Gates wrote an article about robotics that appeared in Scientific American in January, where he makes the case that robotics today is where PC manufacturing was about the time Bill Gates and others started Microsoft. I think he’s right, and […]