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...This tiki [carving] can be dangerous," Tim warns. "My friend moved it to his house once, and his wife walked in and screamed. She said my friend's face looked like it was melting." I decided not to touch the tiki myself, or the heap of human bones and skulls lying nearby. "Trash piles from cannibals from a hundred years ago!" Tim laughs. Having read of the island's violent past, I absolutely believe...
...Doing so, I noticed that the cascade of piles on my desk told the physical story of what I had just done. On one side stood three shelves of books and a plastic bag full of field notes and collected articles: my raw material. Next to that lay a heap of notecards and a folder jammed with typescript drafts covered in edits and marginalia: my shopfloor assemblies. At the far end sat two neat stacks of the printed final copy, bound and totalized: the finished consumer good...
...consider the Kindle as Green Technology—if you ignore the environmental costs of manufacturing it as well as the quality of life of the underpaid Chinese laborers who assemble it. Perhaps books are old-fashioned, but at least they biodegrade. Can you put Kindles in the compost heap?All its technology and environmental politics aside though, the Kindle bothers me most because it ruins the organic experience of reading. To those who might celebrate the Greenness of the Kindle, I say: I don’t care. I don’t care that it saves trees?...
...Topic A in private-equity circles. Everybody agrees there's a shakeout on the way; at industry conferences one hears predictions that anywhere from 20% to 50% of PE firms will go out of business. There's less agreement about the survivors. Will they land back atop the financial heap and continue to steer a big part of the U.S. (and the global) economy? Will the top students at the top business schools still pine for PE jobs? Or was the PE boom just an artifact of a three-decade debt bubble that will be deflating for years...
However, if most of our hypothetical individual futures don't look quite so lavish, as a nation we have two not-so-secret weapons that, managed correctly and given a little luck, could allow us to remain at the top of the heap for a long time to come: technological innovation and immigration...