Links for 2010-11-29

A variant on Joe Fitzsimon's comment on Twitter: "How to be a futurist in 1 easy step: confuse logistic curves for unbounded exponential growth."

"Somewhere in our brave new century, somebody actually pays nearly $1,000 a foot for speaker cable. And somewhere else, people toil anonymously to write things like that review. One can see the rough emerging outlines of Eloi and Morlocks--but not which is which."