Thank you much.

I was looking back over some of your earlier under-sea stuff, to reference it for an IGMS column, and wondering why that stopped. Did that well run dry (to mix a metaphor) or were you just making more

I likewise have stayed away from anything that smacked of the gaming of the system, even delegation of votes, but recently I've been busy writing grants, and even getting some clients, and so my Steemit

I'm sure that my older brother had that one. Herc is such a jerk.

Their thesis is that we don't have to escape it, but to transform it from "capital-ism," with its emphasis on capital as the driver of the economy, to whatever we would call a market driven by

Do you have any insights on how that's going to happen?

Stephen Colbert asks, "What if nobody OVER eighteen could vote?"

Yeah, I saw color images on magazine covers and comic books, too, so I knew what colors the uniforms were supposed to be and all that. The insane saturation of Technicolor makes those representations look

"I can't pull anyone else up until I'm on the next ledge, too." I really like that attitude, and it's how I think of my own progress. Many thanks to @mada and @alexbeyman and other generous

You are most welcome. Where the building codes allow, you might be able to interest Habitat for Humanity in these designs. Our chapter has a straw-bale expert who got frustrated at the lack of progress

Yeah, I just did a book club tonight on futurist trends for NC's economy in 2050, which were all essentially, "Whatever's happening now? More of that." Totally linear thinking, as though inertia

Dissections rock! Though I've only done cats myself.

This post links to a Scientific American article that describes asset-backed cryptocurrencies in non-technical detail. There's a group at MIT working on them. You might be able to interest someone there

Talk to the SteemStem or the Geopolis teams. I follow both of them, and they do good work.

I've not read Ligotti, and am not really a horror fan in general, though I do like Hellboy. Probably the last horror I really enjoyed was The Sub, part of Thomas Disch's Supernatural Minnesota series.

Thank you. I am definitely going to check out that book, as I have an SF writer's interest in comparative systems of government and culture. Exploring the possibilities and all that.

I really like this idea. Our public history program at UNCG is happily also quite devoted to innovation. I played a mega-game with some of them last fall.

I'm curious as to how seriously you take these various models. Each one has to be a huge simplification of the actual phenomena being observed. Does anyone apply the various lenses to the same culture,

So are you in NC? We haven't had a botanist come by in quite some time.