If It Hadn't Been For The Cold

By The End Of This Century, Climate Change Will Reduce The Human Population To A Few Breeding Pairs Surviving Near The Arctic.

Humans On The Earth Behave In Some Ways Like A Pathogenic Micro-organism, Or Like The Cells Of A Tumor.

The Entire Range Of Living Matter On Earth From Whales To Viruses And From Oaks To Algae Could Be Regarded As Constituting A Single Living Entity Capable Of Maintaining The Earth's Atmosphere To Suit Its Overall Needs And Endowed With Faculties And Powers Far Beyond Those Of Its Constituent Parts.

What I Tend To Do Is To Wake About Five In The Morning-this Happens Quite Often-think About The Invention, And Then Image It In My Mind In 3d, As A Kind Of Construct. Then I Do Experiments With The Image...sort Of Rotate It, And Say, 'well What'll Happen If One Does This?' And By The Time I Get Up For Breakfast I Can Usually Go To The Bench And Make A String And Sealing Wax Model That Works Straight Off, Because I've Done Most Of The Experiments Already.

Let's Make Hay While It Lasts.