I loved that line: Too many people, and there would be no rain to speak of. Such is the impact of the power of many. While Moore’s law and globalization have vastly expanded the power of machines and the power of one and the power of flows, the fact that they have also vastly expanded the power of many means that for the first time in the history of both mankind and Planet Earth, mankind has become large enough in numbers and empowered enough by the supernova to be both a force of nature and a forcing function on nature.
