epiminondas writes:

• Usually, it takes a long time for technological change to trickle down into the interstices of our lives.  The changes come almost insensibly, and only in looking back do we see effects.  But every fifty years or so, something very profound happens.  We’re now about to see an explosion of robot technology that will take your breath away.
• Let’s stop fooling ourselves about Wall Street’s high speed trading technology.  It’s all about cheating.
• Class envy and hatred is what drives socialism.  No matter how many pretty pictures we draw, the idea of economic equality is what people expect.  It is one of the tragic myths of modern man.
• And you thought the European debt crisis was over?  Silly you…
• Fifty years ago the Beatles stepped in front of national TV cameras on the Ed Sullivan Show.  The nation was ripe for change.  It got more than it bargained for.
• And if you thought the Beatles made money in the sixties, wait till you see what they earn today.