A New Utility: The Library as Critical Infrastructure
Everyone who plays the board game Monopoly knows that the real power properties to own are the utilities. If you have Water Works, the Electric Company and all four railroads in your pile, you’ve got a...
View ArticleCybermen with Italian Accents
Charlie Stross has found an odd turn of events in Italian Politics: …transhumanism is going to influence the next century because, unless we are very unlucky indeed, the biotechnology, nanotechnology,...
View ArticleThe Wookie Always Wins
Paul Campos over at Lawyers Guns and Money makes an interesting observation about the lingua franca of our modern world, pop culture references: [...] at this point I find that the only two film...
View ArticleYours is an Unoriginal Sin
The iPad came out this weekend and the backlash is in full form. “Why would I want a big iPod?” says the computer geek, pushing his glasses up his nose. “I already have a netbook running Red Hat...
View ArticleA Bridge from the Past to the Future that Never Was
Don’t mind me, I’m just going to spill a few links here so I can find them later. This is a reference post of cool things that, for the astute, will give you an idea of what the new book is about,...
View ArticleNumber 1: Stop Eating Patato Chips
Over at io9, Annalee Newitz has a grand little editorial taking the piss out of the Singularity: It’s not that we couldn’t anticipate these problems, and even generate some Plan B ideas for dealing...
View ArticleMore Human Than Human
Note: This is a bit from the novel in progress that I cut. It’s a little too much of an info dump and I found a better way to convey the same information in half the words, while doing some character...
View ArticleRIP, Steve
Steve Jobs has died. I’m writing these words of a Mac. But whatever platform you use, you owe the ability to do so to this man. His innovative thinking reached far and wide, from Pixar to John Hopkins...
View ArticleAmazon and the Price Fixing Wars
Last week, the Department of Justice brought a civil suit against Apple and the Big Six publishing houses,[1] charging them with price fixing. This has a lot of people in the publishing industry...
View ArticleGambling With The Future
A few days ago I was on Twitter discussing this terrible headline about AI and libertarianism (it’s from John Stossel so yeah, don’t even bother). This apparently attracted the attention of Zoltan...
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