Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert

Commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
(if we're picking on that I would mention that the Amiga and the Atari ST were also not 16-bit machines, at least measured by the size of their registers, but 32 bits. The data bus of the Motorola 68000 CPU...

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)