Chris

Commented on Summer webcomics
Red Meat seems to have come back to life, if somewhat sporadically ... https://www.redmeat.com/max-cannon/fire-hose-ablutions/Content?oid=3492449...
Commented on Crawling from the wreckage
HT @sapinker (of course): https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-good-news-stories-you-probably-didnt-hear-about-in-2018-cc3c65f8ebd0 https://www.positive.news/society/what-went-right-in-2018/#.XCT57EEWVU8.twitter...
Commented on What are you reading this summer?
Currently reading "Abundance - The Future Is Better Than You Think" by Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler. I really would like to see a bright shiny post-scarcity utopia future for my grandkids rather than Hunger Games. Before that, "Remanance"...
Commented on A plaintive request
helicoptermoney => #basicincome has received a ton of interest and is moving into the zeitgeist surprisingly rapidly. 1st step towards a post-scarcity utopia - everyone's goal, I'm sure. I am trying to spread the meme that helicopter money (QE for...
Commented on The referendum question
An interesting idea. I share the concerns about what the southern US would become -- particularly as I kinda live there. From reading the comment thread, tho, there seems to be general agreement that you would need to have global...

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)