Michael Shreeves

Commented on SF For Nothing, Stories For Free
qntm also has an excellent series of short stories on the SCP Foundation wiki about antimemes, or self-censoring information ( http://www.scp-wiki.net/we-need-to-talk-about-fifty-five ). The SCP Foundation more broadly is a huge collaborative CC-BY-SA horror/sci-fi writing project about a fictional paranormal containment...
Commented on A purely theoretical dilemma
Ok, I'm gonna shoot for consequences of a group mind from a human cognition perspective. Setting some ground rules: 1) Let's say I take the bait and support this thing to the hilt. 2) Human brains retain current structure and...
Commented on Ia, Ia, Google Fthagn
Oh, I was on a much lower level than that, just corporate personhood/the biological analogy. I think the competing legal system thing is much more interesting. Then if we go back to the rights of nobles and constitutional monarchy, then...
Commented on Ia, Ia, Google Fthagn
" "A corporation is less like an ant colony and more like a mammal." Not the one I work for. Its behaviour is often less coordinated than that of a jellyfish. " So, I have admittedly limited corporate experience, but...

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)