HoweStreet.com, an investing information site, has an interesting interview up with Doug Casey, Chairman of Casey Research. Casey tries to think in the truly long term, thousands of years into the past and hundreds into the future, which, being both a futurist and aficionado of history and paleontology, I really enjoy. Here’s a quote:

My friend Jim Von Ehr, CEO of Zyvex, a nanotech instrument company, once told me that some of the most valuable land in the future would be the sites of old landfills, because they are basically mountains of purified materials. Once you can reduce matter into its component atoms and make new things with it, such places, packed with high concentrations of useful atoms, will command a premium. In the future, there will be no such thing as trash. So, this bearish trend on commodities you speak of isn’t really a bearish trend at all; it’s a bullish trend in technology.

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