“You think Wexler is lying?” “I think he’s fallible,” Byron had replied. - Robert Charles Wilson

This was unrecorded history, unhappening even as it happened.

It was sad but completely understandable. Ten billion human beings without any cortical or limbic augmentation had simply acted to maximize their individual well-being. They hadn’t given much thought to long-term consequences, but how could they? They had no reliable mechanism by which they could think or act collectively. Blaming those people for the death of the ecosphere made as much sense as blaming water molecules for a tsunami.

I don’t believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.