Jim Applegate

Turns out that the world has been quietly getting better for decades, and few of us have noticed. Like most of us, I thought the world was getting worse or at best, staying

…but here’s what I think I know. That’s a useful way to begin to answer a question because it immediately opens you up to new information and new ideas. Even if

I’m playing catch-up a lot these days. Before I met my wife and started having kids, I spent a lot of my time thinking about how to create a World that works

On December 7, 1972 the crew of the Apollo 17 mission took an iconic picture of the Earth. It’s come to be known as the “Blue Marble” and has been one of

Buckminster Fuller [https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller] used this phrase to describe what he was doing, the role he was playing in our World. As far as he could discern during his lifetime,