“the American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.” MenHas BeensWarFightingCostMen And WomenRemainsTinyIsolatedAgain And AgainOngoingCiviliansComplacencyFractionsActualityDeploying Book:Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power Source: Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
“You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.” IfsPayCostLaborIncreasePaidTinyInstanceChainsConsumersFarmsPortionsWagesRevenueSupermarketsFood Chain Author:Anna Lappe
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.” NextEnergyInterestTechnologyGenerationsInternetCostLowsRadioConnectedTinyControlledItemsNext GenerationFrequencyIdentificationEmbeddedComputingServerSensors Author:David Petraeus