Why is that?

See subject.

Just like a company can hire 1000 people, a company could hire a 1000 companies.
Those companies, are, however still able to work for other companies as they see fit.
So the "economies of scale" are automatically transformed into a hierarchical structure, where each component is easily replaced by another component.

Just allow companies to only grow up until they have, say, 1000 employees.
After that, they can only split.

What this solves:
No more conglomerates, companies form modular structures, output of 1 company can be reused by another company at a useful granularity.
This leads to much more competition, where previously only monopolies or quasi-monopolies were possible.
This, in turn, reduces and redistributes power.

The problem with "artistic" blur: shrink the image a bit, and the blur is gone!
(Try it and be amazed).

No, some parallel programming :)

You could install a threadmill behind your desk.

Unless it is haunted by a Maxwell demon.

The problem with that is that it will cool down the inside of the Earth.
You can have a look at the movie "The Core" to see what will happen then...

Perhaps we have moved towards an "on-demand" style of consuming.
We're not reading an article anymore because an editor assumed we had to read it.
Instead, we're reading an article because we were actively looking for it.

Perhaps we should move to a different voting system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

Democracy is a system which is somehow stable, for the ones in power have no incentive to change it, and the people's voice is transformed/interpreted in such a way that it has no effect.
So yes.

Democracy does not exist. Here's an example theorem that shows it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

I work for a modeling agency, you insensitive clod!

The space elevator is so passé.
I'd rather see they research things like molecular biology. There's so much more to gain there, imho.

Anyway, it is nice to see that they do more than developing boring online office applications.