might be a good idea

to live with the Amish for a while ...

how about Amish Halfway Houses : resorts which are inspected every once in a while by real Amish
people, so that normal people can live the Amish way ,

But since the Amish depend on oil too, my plan of having this as a Avoid-Oil-Collapse training wouldn't work... or would it ... ?

edit :

added to the books-i-think-ought-to-be-great post ...

oh yeah

we need more of these

black magic that science is making possible

how to hack your brain

and more sf goodness

the books(and movie adaptations) were right, the singularity might happen

daily midwifery

What is every day but an excercise in imposing one's own reality upon the world, and trying not to have other realities imposed upon us by the world.
We are but midwifes who daily seek to bring to life the baby that is one's own vision of the world and its people, and where one's position is decided by oneself and none other ....
Whose reality are you in now ?