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Behind our pursuit of future is a whole army of barely paid, partially employed workers whose place in the future era is tenuous at best. p188

The ghouls wear lab coats now, their bosses jet-setting not to Transylvania via batwings but to Davos by private jet. Death is no longer part of the fabric of magic that glimmers in the seams of the otherwise plain weave of life. Death is something we can quantify, examine, study, and deal with. p141

...perhaps we need an entirely new religion that can accommodate the way our desire for social certainty is increasingly masquerading as our buy-in to the quest for personalized techno-immortality. P128

Knowing what is going to happen is far more efficient than responding to events after the fact. And systematically controlling what is going to happen is most efficient of all. P100

the choice was to help create the future, or sit on the sideline and think about it. Tom Greany quoted on p 28

Brilliant reporting about our current nightmare.