Today’s Dispatch: The Shut-Up Gun, Light-Based Memory, and Hovercraft Safety Homes!
Mar 022012
Jan 262012
Technological utopianism might be just as foolish as vegan white people with dreadlocks or those with a super-spooky, vengeful, punishing father figure in the sky. But I kinda really seriously doubt it. (BOOK RECOMMENDATION)
January 26, 2012
Consciousness, Cybernetics, Energy Technology, Future Already Very Pending, Genomics, Human Augmentation, Internet, Kurzweil, Medical Technology, Prosthetics, Pure Science, Robot, Space Technology, Super Computer, Technology, Technology & Art, Technology & Education, Technology & Labor, Technology & Politics, Technology & Travel, Technology & Work, Technology Law, The Beginning is Near, Transhumanism
Jan 232012
IPv6 is a great leap forward. But something tells me that even a 39-digit number might eventually seem as quaint as 4.3 billion does now. I mean come on, let’s be realistic – nanobots are going to need IP addresses, too.
Jan 182012
Apple’s prepping a hostile takeover of the textbook industry. Geeks, hippies, and normals can all agree. Unless you’re working for a paper publishing dinosaur, it’s basically impossible to argue that this isn’t a fabulous idea.
January 18, 2012
Apple, Internet, iPad, Mobile, Technology, Technology & Education, Terminal Anachronism, We're Already Cyborgs Already
Dec 312011
These two seemingly low-tech pasty white guys in their 40s are the unlikely heroes of contemporary entertainment technology – and the comedy entertainment industry’s version of The Man should be very, very scared.
December 31, 2011
Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Internet, Multimedia, Technology, Technology & Art, Technology & Labor, Technology Law
Dec 152011
There are some things to which we’re all too connected – I’ll certainly admit that. But splashing out some junk science conjecture to broadly condemn the immensely powerful forces of social technology is just weak sauce.
December 15, 2011
Aging Society, Facebook, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Internet, Neurology, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology & Politics, Twitter
Aug 162011
3.5 Days in a in a Lack-of-Data Haze. Last week I had to go do some Japanese-style camping. Skipping the horrific details, suffice it to say, I was outside the stream – I lacked data. Had insufficient information. No place in the global network. Did not like it. Since snatching up an LG-V in 2005, and the soon to follow procession of Blackberries and iPhones, I really haven’t been disconnected. At all. And I like it that way. This really was my first removal since the gradually maturing era of ubiquitous mobile data began gradually maturing. It was a bit surprising [read full post]