“You’ve heard the phrase ‘entropy increases’? Everything falls apart eventually. You can postpone it for a while, but that takes energy. The more complicated the system, the more energy it needs to stay in one piece. Back before us everything was sun-powered, all the plants were like these little solar batteries that everything else could build on. Only now we’ve got this society that’s on an exponential complexity curve, and the Net’s on the same curve, only a lot steeper, right? So we’re all balled up in this runaway machine, it’s got so complicated it’s always on the verge of flying apart,
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