mikeisicowboy

Commented on The revolution will not be hand-stitched
If/when this happens it is going to be devastating for a lot of developing nations which have used textile exports to drive their economic growth and employ new urban dwellers. It may not be pretty and it is often downright...
Commented on Catching a Blighty
The Legion has certainly changed in recent years. When I was a kid growing up it seemed to be much more of a grass roots movement - perhaps because there were so many WW2 survivors and people who had done...
Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
Outside the EU could make it much harder for Britons to live, study and work in Europe. Setting aside all the retirees in the Med, that would cause huge problems for highly qualified Britons to find scientific, engineering and technology...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)