Welcome my son, Welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It's all right -- we told you what to dream… -- Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine (Wish You Were Here, 1975) There’s this friend of mine… He works in the financial industry, lives in a well-appointed, relatively new home in an idyllic suburb of ...read more

"Welcome my son, Welcome to the machine. Where have you been? It's all right -- we know where you've been... -- Pink Floyd, "Welcome to the Machine" (1975) For prophetic visions of where we're headed, forget the economists, philosophers, historians, politicos -- and especially climatologists (30 years ago, they predicted an impending ice age, for ...read more