Teg

Commented on Roe v Wade v Sanity
It galvanizes the Democrat base and they manage to edge the Republican majority out of the Senate: suddenly the legislative gridlock evaporates and they pass a Federal law explicitly enumerating rights to this stuff. (I wish.) Even in the best...
Commented on That sinking feeling
What do you think the odds are for something like this coming to pass? (assuming Brexit is cancelled at the 11th hour) odds for better? odds for worse?...
Commented on A question about the future of the world wide web
Advertising is not going away, the only reason Ad blockers work at the moment is because the Ad content is easily distinguishable from the "real" content. While the lost revenue from ad blockers is less than the amount of effort...

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)