It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them. - Daniel Suarez

Even the ruins left behind by bankrupt fossil fuel companies continue to pollute. There are twenty-nine million abandoned, uncapped oil and gas wells around the world — each one of them spewing the emissions of fifteen hundred automobiles. Sealing them would require trillions and take decades.

"Now combine an application like that — a widely distributed entity that never dies — with tens of millions of dollars and the ability to purchase goods and services. It’s answerable to no one and has no fear of punishment." "My God. It’s a corporation."

"She thought about it and nodded slightly. "Yes, the darknet economy was seeded by real world wealth. Wealth that was questionable in origin to begin with. Here, it’s being invested in people and projects that have begun to return value - not in dollars, but in things of intrinsic human worth. Energy, information, food, shelter.