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Commented on Playtime is over
As a scientist (Nuclear magnetic resonance) I accept understanding is important; but understanding everything is not always necessary to approximate a solution to a problem. Climate change is the most important existential threat we face; saying 'Whoa there! Lets hold...
Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
Interesting question from OGH... The way I've unpacked it is thus :- Point 1. This is about what is rational to do in the face of an existential threat. Here we have both of the parties making a decision on...
Commented on 21st Century: a complaint
I know someone on the script writing team, the second half of 21st Century(tm) is one long disaster movie. Has quite a slow build up; loads of kooky scientists start saying they have access to 'secret' information that there a...

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)