Quotes from John L. Casti

The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.