![]() As quoted in "Future tense" in The Guardian (14 September 2005).It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position.It's slow, tedious, inconclusive, it's hard to tell good guys from bad guys - it's everything that a normal hour of Star Trek is not. There are many facets of science that are almost exactly opposite of dramatic narrative. The whole process of science is wildly under-represented in science fiction because it's not easy to write about. Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making. ![]() It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power. Quotes Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. ![]()
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