Perhaps Our Greatest Distinction As A Species

The Rate Of Human Invention Is Faster, And The Rate Of Cultural Loss Is Slower, In Areas Occupied By Many Competing Societies With Many Individuals And In Contact With Societies Elsewhere.

We're Uncomfortable About Considering History As A Science. It's Classified As A Social Science, Which Is Considered Not Quite Scientific.

We Know From Our Recent History That English Did Not Come To Replace U.s. Indian Languages Merely Because English Sounded Musical To Indians' Ears. Instead, The Replacement Entailed English-speaking Immigrants' Killing Most Indians By War, Murder, And Introduced Diseases, And The Surviving Indians' Being Pressured Into Adopting English, The New Majority Language.

Technology Causes Problems As Well As Solves Problems. Nobody Has Figured Out A Way To Ensure That, As Of Tomorrow, Technology Won't Create Problems. Technology Simply Means Increased Power, Which Is Why We Have The Global Problems We Face Today.

I'd Rather Spend My Leisure Time Doing What Some People Call My Work And I Call My Fun.