Excerpt: In the Bubble – “On just one single day of the days I have spent writing this book, as much world trade was carried out as in the whole of 1949; as much scientific research was published as in the whole of 1960; as many telephone calls were made as in all of 1983; as many e-mails were sent as in 1990.[vi] Our natural, human, and industrial systems, which evolve slowly, are struggling to adapt.”