Compared With U.s. Cities, Japanese Cities Bend

A World With A Sudden Limit On Air Travel Would Be Tremendously Different From The One We Live In Now.

Japanese Maps Tend To Come In Two Varieties: Small, Schematic, And Bewildering; And Large, Fantastically Detailed, And Bewildering.

The Way I Think Of It, Economics And Ecology Occupy Two Intellectual Silos, Isolated From Each Other. Even When They Do Take Each Other Into Consideration, It's Not Uncommon For Ecologists To Spout Absolute Nonsense About Economics, And Vice Versa.

A Smartphone Links Patients' Bodies And Doctors' Computers, Which In Turn Are Connected To The Internet, Which In Turn Is Connected To Any Smartphone Anywhere. The New Devices Could Put The Management Of An Individual's Internal Organs In The Hands Of Every Hacker, Online Scammer, And Digital Vandal On Earth.

A Whole Bunch Of Big Technological Shocks Occurred When Asian Innovations - Paper, Gunpowder, The Stirrup, The Moldboard Plow And So On - Came To Europe Via The Silk Road.