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Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
"Yes, what's the real rate of infection & why do "so many" (?) people seem to be already immune or almost-immune to a supposedly previously-unknown disiese?" When they say "immune," I think they mean "already infected and recovered." You can...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
Another element worth mentioning: the actual lethality rate of the virus seems to be lower than initially expected, which would imply that there have been many more low-grade infections than we know. The initial mortality rate estimate, two months ago,...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
Counter-example: Hong Kong. One of the densest cities in the world (more than half a million people per square kilometer in Kowloon), one of the first places to be infected, no mass testing, no lockdown (only measures: testing and mandatory...

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)