Sublime

“steady-state economy.”

Jacobs, Jane. The Nature of Economies. New York: Modern Library, 2000.

Our vision of the possible and the feasible is so restricted by industrial expectations that any alternative to more mass production sounds like a return to past oppression or like a Utopian design for noble savages.

The steady titanic tilt toward dematerialization and decentralization means that further flows are inevitable.

You can see in all these efforts the emergence of a new political philosophy, as different from the state-centralized solutions of the old Left as it is from the libertarian market religion of the Right. The people behind these movements believe in government intervention without Legrand Stars, in Hayek-style distributed information without traditi

reclaiming time is the common denominator of lifestyles at the cutting edge of the sustainability frontier.

whether these developments can or should proceed in the face of opposition from legions of losers will be among the more important controversies of the Information Age.

the futures we imagine are inevitably the futures we steer toward.

How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.