Biotech companies spread patented genetic sequences via the natural ecosystem—much like a computer virus. Then they use the legal system to claim own… - Daniel Suarez

Look, cell phone geolocation data shows very few clustering anomalies for this hour and climate. And that’s holding up pretty much across all major metro areas. It’s gone down six percentage points since news of the Karachi workshop hit the Web, and it’s trending downward. If people are protesting, they aren’t doing it in the streets.” He circled his finger over a few clusters of dots. “Some potential protest knots in Portland and Austin, but defiance-related tag cloud groupings in social media put us within the three-sigma rule — meaning roughly sixty-eight percent of the values lie within one standard deviation of the mean.

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.

Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.