What wonders are there in simplicity? The human structure, compared to the vastness of the universe, is a simple system, relatively easy to master. Any reasonably technological civilization will soon learn to alter genes and prolong their natural spans. It’s very simple. It’s amazing that the sci-fi writers of the 20th century [...]

Capitalists will often accuse environmentalists of worshiping the earth. In their eyes, environmentalists are a type of religious cult. To many capitalists, environmentalists don’t merely see ecosystems, they see a sacred, harmonious unity of earth, water, weather, plants, bugs, beasts, watched over by a sentient, metaphysical presence; Mother Nature, Gaia. These are [...]

Driving over the Sunol grade, bound south west on Interstate 680, is driving into the heart of the Silicon Valley. The south estuaries of the San Francisco Bay stretch out to the north and north west, and the vast Santa Clara Valley forms an all encompassing plain, with distant mountains covered with clouds blown up [...]

Imagine the tentacles of technology spanning the earth like the arms of an octopus around a watermelon. The grip of a feeding octopus on the fragile sides of our earth, this moist watermelon, has been more apropos as a metaphor for technology than the more recent internet derived concept; an infinite web of conduits pouring [...]