Um, if it's built by humans it won't be intelligent :-).
Seriously, "the left" such as it is, needs to really get into ecology,
engineering, satellites and computers in the next decade and, oh ,yeah, figure
out how to break the neo-Kantian stranglehold on the current international
anyone interested in the declining terms of trade thesis should begin with
Prebisch-Singer, in both its original form (focusing on primary vs. manufactured
products) and its revised form (focusing on
structural differences in economies). In the statistical debate later on,
Prebisch-Singer was
