The “Remember When Gas Was Cheap?”  post on 4/20/06 provoked a lot of response. That post looked back at the rise of gas prices, written from the future perch of 4/20/09.

In that futuristic look back to see how gas went from $3.00 in April, 2006 to the $7.33 price in April, 2009, I wrote of events and consequences during that three year time period.  One such event ‘ocurred’ in October 2007, when, with the price of gas at $4.45, GM announced that it was shutting down the Hummer division because of a drastic fall-off in sales and the refusal …

“The future, what’s that?”

-Belisario, one of a group of hunter-gatherers who left the Columbian jungle to join the modern world

This was the “Quotation of the Day” from yesterday’s New York Times.  It was lifted from the remarkable front page article about the Nukak-Maku and that a group of almost 80 of this Stone Age tribe wandered out of the Amazon jungle, declaring that they were ready to join the modern world.

The Nukak-Maku are clearly unprepared for their new world.  “The Nukak have no concept of money, of property, of the role of government, or even of the existence of a …

[Reader note: in the short life of this blog your feedback has been important. There have been two format suggestions that have been made several times. First, people have said they like the orginal ideas, depth of content and the writing. Second they have said that they often do not have the time to read a lengthy post. Therefore, starting with this post, I will break up subject matter that requires length, such as the subject of disintermediation, into more frequent, shorter posts in proper conceptual sequence. Please let me know if you like this …

The issue of energy and the systemic societal addiction to petroleum around the world is at the top of the list of important issues we now face.  It, more than any other current issue affects how the future of humanity will be written.  As stated in the ‘blog origins’ section of this site, I believe we are approaching a choice point that could determine how our history will be written 300 years from now.  In the decades ahead, humanity might well have the opportunity to begin to take the next major step in its evolutionary journey.  If that occurs, it …