As much fun as his Green technology theories sound, does anyone else see the problem with genetically engineered termites that eat substances other than wood? If those things got loose, we'd all be F'd in the A.

I'm definitely noting a hint of the ramblings of a futurist here, but someone has to be looking forward. If you read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (and believe what Thomas Kuhn has to say in it), science is perpetually experiencing paradigm shifts. As progress is made in a particular field and discoveries build upon each other, eventually the entire scientific community undergoes a change so drastic that new possibilities open that were never before thought possible (take the discovery of the round earth, for instance). It definitely seems that we could be approaching one of these paradigm shifts. That's not to say that Dyson is accurate in his specific predictions. Given where we are technologically, though, who is to say what is out of reach.

Oh, and I agree on the whole corporate/government link.