I'm a bit late in noting this, but last week's Fast Company article is indeed available. "Awareness is Everything" looks at what happens as we keep adding sensory awareness to our personal devices. Imagine a desktop with a camera that...
Topics: Participatory Panopticon

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In 2002, I wrote Broken Dreams, a guidebook for the Steve Jackson Games "Transhuman Space" role-playing game series. Broken Dreams covered global traumas such as conflict, social disorder, economic decline, and intellectual property. Part of...
Topics: Understanding the World

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Video of my talk at AMP in Sydney is now available. It runs about an hour: There will be a prize (to be determined) for whomever comes up with the goofiest screencap of me from this video. My candidate...

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The "blue" and the "green" are identical colors (RGB 0/255/150). Discuss. Yes, they are. Grab this image and test the colors yourself. Here are more. From Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomy blogger, who says: The orange stripes go through..

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This next few days sees a big print media splash the likes of which I've never experienced. The July/August issue of The Atlantic Monthly, now on sale, has my long-awaited (at least by me) article on cognitive augmentation, "Get Smart."...
Topics: Updates

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