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Category Archives: The Future
Your dose of African flavored cyberpunk
By way of MetaFilter, I found a 17MB movie about the future of global law enforcement. In several ways, this had a greater impact on me than Matrix Reloaded or T3.
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More thoughts about African Cyberpunk
As I mentioned earlier, Gibson and Stephenson got it wrong: The place where all the technology will be churning in the decades to come will not be Asia. China and India are already sort of established and old hat now. … Continue reading
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We are in the XXI century!
So I am writing code at 4 in the morning, listening to KEXP (which I’ve already mentioned and linked to elsewhere in my site. Go look for it Sam!), and I hear something that makes absolutely plain that the XXI … Continue reading
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So what happens to piloted spaceflight?
On Saturday, I was very glad that I don’t have a television. There’s nothing worse than hearing the same thing over and over. I didn’t learn about the disintegration of the Columbia Shuttle until at least 6 or so hours … Continue reading
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When Consumer Society Went Wrong
Today, I fixed my old Emerson Electric desk fan. This monster was built back in the nineteen-forties or the nineteen thirties and it really shows–solid steel everywhere and everything is designed to be taken apart and reassembled. It could probably … Continue reading
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Scientists Build Polio Virus From Scratch
As has already been made plain by the advances of the XX century, individuals are gaining a greater ability to do greater damage over a larger area. And a few months ago this trend took a dangerous step forward. In … Continue reading
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The Yin and the Yang
By the way, check out Mark Pilgrim’s Dive into Accessibility to learn various simple methods to make your site accessible. Another screed I posted at Nanodot some months back. Will we better as gods than as mortals? The evidence, based … Continue reading
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Transcending the Shallowness
This is another little mini-essay that I’ve culled from my posts at Nanodot. Now that the future is here, if not quite manifestly obvious, should we even waste our time with human desires anymore? That is a question technically savvy … Continue reading
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The Vanguard of Cultural Evolution
A week or so ago, I wrote an interesting reply to a post at Nanodot about the persistence of the geek factor throughout human history and prehistory. I liked it so much I’ve decided to reproduce and amplify it here … Continue reading
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Radio by photolith, forensics, Web comics as unintentional biography
May was a very busy month for me so, most of the entries this month consisted of links with little commentary. (Actually now that I think of it most of my journal consists of this type of entry.) And this … Continue reading
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