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Book Review: Jeremy Rifkin’s “The Zero Marginal Cost Society”

A hefty portion of humanity’s uniqueness can be traced back to future projection.  We constantly weave narratives that stretch moments and months and millennia ahead, even as we fumble to figure out what to do with today, each day.  Everyone needs some kind of intellectual framework to navigate this tricky tension, which is where futurists [...]

Quote 7-25-2014

“Daniel glanced curiously down the segment of Mint Street that had just come into view.  He was strangely let down to see that it was quiet and almost peaceful.  He’d been hoping that the Mint would only become more Hellish the deeper he went into it, like the Inferno according to Dante, and that in [...]