| | Big Ideas |
 | | Islamic terrorism is just one of these global forces: it is stateless and is a virus that threatens the modern state, as jihadists try to pull us back into medieval times, in that age that preceded the rise of nations as we know them now. |
 | | Very small economic units—be they small nations or small business units—working in free alliance with others give rise to superior results, while traditional largescale aggregations are themselves declining in value and are serving as a drag on the economic systems in which they emmeshed. |
 | | Moshe Alamaro of MIT proposes “the creation of small, man-made tropical cyclones to cool the ocean and rob big, natural hurricanes of their source of energy.” He figures offshore barges with upward-facing jet engines can cause evaporation and cooling on the ocean’s surface. |
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