Michael R. Bernstein

Commented on Rejection Letter
And we can be talking about MRI and CAT scanners here, costing in the millions. I am not sure what the cost of the devices has to do with the cost of recertification on a new OS version... In any...
Commented on Rejection Letter
And we can be talking about MRI and CAT scanners here, costing in the millions. I am not sure what the cost of the devices has to do with the cost of recertification on a new OS version... In any...
Commented on The internet of decay
Exuse me while I go pursue my financial ruin and personal misery (I don't enjoy doing code to that standard!) It may be less painful than you think, programming languages that automate more of the correctness and correctness-checking to eliminate...
Commented on Popcorn Time
It's a bit more balanced than the EU, though, where you've got Germany holding down the center with ~80 million people and peripheral nations like Croatia and Estonia with ~2-5 million people and a per-capita GDP up to an order...

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)