Your faith in <i>Homo technologicus</i> -the Tinkering Man- has one fatal flaw. It offers you no escape clause. - David Brin

Moralists can always justify going outside the law when it suits their sense of righteous timing.

Why is the future always … in the future?

Of course none compare to the exponential growth unleashed by late-20th Century America’s synergy of government, enterprise and unleashed individual competitiveness. One result was the first society transforming itself from the feudal pyramid of privilege to a diamond shape[227] whose vast and healthy and well-educated middle class proved to be the generator of nearly all our great accomplishments.