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Commented on The Day After
Gee, nobody here seems to remember how things were back in 1980 when Ronnie Reagan got elected. The end of the world was near! The smiling fool was going to start a nuclear war with the russkies. In the end...
Commented on What else can you do with a Big Dumb Booster?
1- A very large array radiotelescope on lunar farside 2- A big, spinning, Mars-gravity space station in high Earth orbit, dedicated to testing plants intended eventually for Mars....

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)