What do an aircraft engine falling to pieces in mid air and a cruise ship crankcase splitting open and erupting into flames have in common? More evidence of globalization gone awry. Here's why…
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To Own or be Owned: A Virtual Reality Check
Amazon recalls illicit digital e-books, and with them our notion that we can ever really own anything "digital". This and other dangerous realities of the e-universe.
Rethinking Globalism: Why We Need a Cell-Based Economy
What this worldwide recession proves: Globalism is a fatally flawed model in the present economic and ecologic sense. Protectionism may not be the answer, but nor is leaving one's country ripe for manipulation at the hands of commodities and foreign currency traders, resource shortages and above all too-close-to-the-bone ideas about corporate "efficiency" that make transcontinental supply chains so perilously thin and easy to disrupt. Why we need a cell-based economy. Stat.