The next book
It’s not quite finished yet on paper, but it’s all there in my head, so it shouldn’t be too much …
Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes
From the Guardian Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on …
Playstation .03
He was a founder (and the first chairman) of the Federation of American Scientists, but there’s a footnote in the …
Has the surveillance society already arrived?
from the BBC The government gathers more data on us than anyone else and has big plans to collect even …
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McCain vs Obama: Dance-off 2008
Just last night I was editing a chapter in the new book that involves real-time mimicking of human beings by …
Plan B: Flood Banks with Cash
Plan A, it seems to me, was to commandeer the lifeboats before yelling “Every man for himself.” Who knows? Maybe …
The Fork
There’s a common tactic in chess called a fork, in which a player forces his or her opponent into a …
Seven years since
Alan Taylor of the Boston Globe presents a vivid photographic remembrance of September 11, 2001, including present-day images of architectural …
Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research
It was a birthplace of a wealth of advances that fueled the technology revolution. Now, as reported in this article …
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64 years ago, the IBM Mark I was born
Wider than my front lawn and heavier than your car, with enough internal wiring to make a tin-can phone to …
East meets West in ever-widening surveillance grid
From the LA Times The West might have a stronger argument in questioning China’s potential for intrusive surveillance if it …
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the …
