The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consider…

- Charles C. Mann

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

- Charles C. Mann

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

- Charles C. Mann

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

- Charles C. Mann

A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone…

- Charles C. Mann

In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songh…

- Charles C. Mann

Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as elect…

- Charles C. Mann

Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making p…

- Charles C. Mann

The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.

- Charles C. Mann