I don’t plan too. And thanks!

In all kinds of ways:

And Grant’s Parasite was a bit like that too.

There doesn’t have to be a rift. We could all get along just fine.

Loud vehment agreement!

That’s not exactly what I’m saying.

Yep, that’s all true in the near term but, I’m thinking much further down the road.

Kinda true really. The stories are very similar.

All the points in this article make perfect sense to me. Let’s do this!

I’m really glad flying cars didn’t become a thing, and are very unlikely to ever become a thing. Robot cars everywhere? That is what I’m looking forward to!

Why am I not surprised?

Well, I’d love to be pleasantly surprised. But I’m not betting that way.

“Clarity is something you can only achieve yourself by your own will.”

Any one of a host of genetic maladies. If human programmers aren’t perfect. Blind evolution certainly isn’t.

Alas, CG, you and I are roughly of the same age, I doubt either one of us is going to see technology that will let us live past the age of a 100. No Ghost in the Shell for us.

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Well it was a stand-in for any kind of repression. It could have been about Jim Crow too.

I’d say you’d have to be old enough to form political opinions when the US and Soviet Union were still at each other’s throats. So no, you’re past the experiential gap. You were still in grade school when the Soviet Union broke up.

More stars for this.

Not really individual farmers so much as huge agribusiness multinationals like ADM, Cargill, Dow AgroScience, Monsanto and many others. Farming has long since ceased to be a small, family affair. It’s big business and big money.