Was listening to a BBC World Service interview with Gordon Moore, Intel's founder.
I can't quote him exactly but the gist of his ideas went along the lines of "If you project anything long enough, it always ends in disaster"
This was in reference to population growth, densities, etc...
But it added more fuel to my current train of thought : the inevitable failure of civilisation due to the collapse of the currency system.
In case you're interested,
The debasement of world currency: it is inflation, but not as we know it
"Borrowing money into circulation
The future is bleak.
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" - from "The Second Coming" by W B Yeats
(But wait, a little beam of light comes forth from where I least expected it... Melbourne.)
