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Commented on Eleven Tweets
As to what should be done. Easiest way to get a sort-of micropayment system is probably a successful Spotify or Netflix for journalistic content. I have no interest in reading foreign news in my local, Swedish, newspaper. But I may...
Commented on Eleven Tweets
What is the fundamental difference between sites trying to get lots of eyeballs for ads, and sites trying to get lots of micropayments? Seems like both systems would provide the same incentives....
Commented on Why we're not going to see sub-orbital airliners
Any reason the sub-orbital airliner could not coast the final stretch of the journey at normal airliner speed? First fly at high mach to somewhere the military liked, and then proceed to a suitable hub or even city airport? Sounds...
Commented on A deceptively simple question
I certainly hope for smaller, more human scale automatic transport within cities. Something pallet sized and quiet to replace delivery trucks. Today the incentive is to make delivery vehicles as large as possible, to maximise the amount of goods one...
Commented on A deceptively simple question
Online food delivery has one advantage - it does not need to store fresh produce a couple of days on shelves. In theory that should result in fresher and better product. Personally I would not mind at all getting an...
Commented on A deceptively simple question
A lot less parking lots, and more density when we reclaim the space. A self-driving vehicle only needs one parking space, and it does not have to be close to anything in particular. Home delivery of anything, 24/7. Online retail...
Commented on On Syria
It would be even nicer if there were some legal way for refugees to actually reach Sweden so they can apply for asylum... But yes this is a very good thing. I remember a few year back when our migration...

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joat commented on Eleven Tweets
In point of fact, nothing is to be done because the system is path dependent. What you see is what we're going to get, only more so....
George Carty commented on Eleven Tweets
Do you think that Hillary's "blue wall" crumbled in part because of an out-migration of Democrat-leaning voters from those states to other states where their votes wouldn't affect the Electoral College outcome, rather than because they voted Trump this time in defiance of globalization?...
RDSouth commented on Eleven Tweets
Kind of like what Emilio Estavez's character does in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_(film) except using a computer instead of an uzi....
Moz commented on Eleven Tweets
To avoid crippling fees, you need to maintain a certain minimum balance. When I arrived in Australia about 2000 that was the case. But there was a wave of change and these days fee-free accounts are the norm. To the point where I have accounts with three different banks purely because that's easier than grinding through the process to close the accounts. There's no need for those fees any more, at least with the more internet-enabled banks. An accurate fee would be a few cents a year which would mostly over the reporting costs (in other words the exact cost...
Moz commented on Eleven Tweets
One thing in Australia is that post offices are often agencies now, a corner of the chemist or part of the newsagency. But they all offer a whole heap of services, to the point where it's common for staff to look up the thing on their computer and say "right, I print this form, you fill it out, I stamp it then scan it into the computer, you pay $10.25, and I give you a receipt". They literally have never seen that form before in 99% of cases. We have had to do this several times to get a mortgage...

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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)

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