Ideology
Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary,
but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need
as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards
of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep
thrumming of our common pulse.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
Industrial Base
Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by
this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten
future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is
ours, chew and eat our fill.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
Superconductor
Important? Yes! Critical? Absolutely. I would go so far as to say
that Superconducting Fiber alone makes our present economy possible.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview
Applied Relativity
You ivory tower intellectuals must not lose touch with the world
of industrial growth and hard currency. It is all very well and
good to pursue these high-minded scientific theories, but research
grants are expensive and you must justify your existence by providing
not only knowledge, but concrete and profitable applications as well.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
Frictionless Surfaces
As I stepped onto the Magtube, a thought struck me:
Can there be friction where there is no substance?
And can substance be tricked into hiding from itself?
Dr. Gayle Nambala, Morgan Industries Researcher
Applied Gravitonics
"What goes up... better doggone well stay up!"
Morgan Gravitonics, Company Slogan
Singularity Mechanics
Yes, yes, we've all heard the philosophers babble about "oneness"
being "beautiful" and "holy". But let me tell you that {this} kind
of oneness certainly isn't pretty and if you're not careful it
will scare the bejeezus out of you.
Anonymous Lab Technician, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview
Super Tensile Solids
Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules--forget
all of that. It's when you see a megaton of steel suspended over
your head by a thread the thickness of a human hair that you
really find God in technology.
Anonymous Metagenics Dockworker, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview
Digital Sentience
We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software
to perform specific tasks. We now teach the software how to learn,
and in the primary bonding process it molds itself around the task
to be performed. The feedback loop never really ends, so a tenth year
polysentience can be a priceless jewel or a psychotic wreck, but it
is the primary bonding--the childhood, if you will--that has the most
far-reaching repercussions.
Bad'l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft
Synthetic Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuels in the last century reached their extreme prices
because of their inherent utility: they pack a great deal of
potential energy into an extremely efficient package. If we can
but sidestep the 100 million year production process, we can corner
this market once again.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Strategy Session
Nanominiaturization
Objects once measured in meters have become so small that they cannot
be seen by the naked eye, with revolutionary applications across
the board. Gentlemen, forget what your courtesans have told you:
size does matter!
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morgan Industries Annual Report
Industrial Economics
Our first challenge is to create an entire economic infrastructure, from
top to bottom, out of whole cloth. No gradual evolution from previous
economic systems is possible, because there IS no previous economic
system. Each interdependent piece must be materialized simultaneously
and in perfect working order; otherwise the system will crash out
before it ever gets off the ground.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
Industrial Automation
In the borehole pressure mines 100km beneath Planetsurface,
at the Mohorovicic Discontinuity where crust gives way to mantle,
temperatures often reach levels well in excess of 1000 degrees Celsius.
Exploitation of Planet's resources under such brutal conditions has
required quantum advances in robotic and teleoperational technology.
Morgan Industries, Ltd., "Annual Report"
Organic Superlubricant
Organic Superlube? Oh, it's great stuff, great stuff.
You really have to keep an eye on it, though--it'll try and slide
away from you the first chance it gets.
T. M. Morgan-Reilly, Morgan Metagenics
Global Energy Theory
"Energy is the currency of the future."
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
Nanomatter Editation
'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled
next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when
the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds
on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see
this message, {always} choose 'Retry.'
Bad'l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft
The Merchant Exchange
Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary,
but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need
as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards
of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep
thrumming of our common pulse.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
The Longevity Vaccine
I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd
settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be
pretty nice.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, MorganLink 3DVision Interview
The Network Backbone
Of course we'll bundle our MorganNet software with the new
network nodes; our customers expect no less of us. We have never
sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good that
no one feels the need to compete with us.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morgan Data Systems press release
The Living Refinery
We estimate that during the next mission century most of
Planet's industries will be moved off-planet to Nessus Prime and
other orbital facilities. Many of our industries will benefit
greatly from the low gravity environments available in space,
particularly those involving genetically engineered microbes.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
Energy Bank
Life is merely an orderly decay of energy states, and survival
requires the continual discovery of new energy to pump into the
system. He who controls the sources of energy controls the means
of survival.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
Hologram Theatre
Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and
held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony.
We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him
into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign:
televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours - the works.
People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his
eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales,
and dampen the spirits of our customers.
"Mythology for Profit", Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech
Fusion Lab
It will happen, and it will happen in our lifetimes. Fusion
Power isn't just the future. Fusion Power is now.
T. M. Morgan-Reilly, Morgan Metagenics
Research Hospital
Some civilian workers got in among the research patients today and
became so hysterical I felt compelled to have them nerve stapled.
The consequence, of course, will be another public relations nightmare,
but I was severely shaken by the extent of their revulsion towards a
project so vital to our survival.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, The Personal Diaries
Nanoreplicator
Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate
exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the
next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole,
indistinguishable from the original in every way, including
the so-called "moral value" of the art itself. Nothing can
transcend its smallest elements.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
Quantum Converter
And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to
planetary government, from entrepreneur to emperor, it is then that the
true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is the
lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls
the energy supply controls Planet. In former times the energy monopoly
was called "The Power Company"; we intend to give this name an entirely
new meaning.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"
Orbital Power Transmitter
Planet's Primary, Alpha Centauri A, blasts unimaginable quantities
of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it
is wasted entirely. Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but
stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan,"The Centauri Monopoly"