In times such as these, when educated people are called upon to propose radical solutions to the most extreme of our modern dilemmas, it is of no use proposing solutions that solve only one problem at a time. We must look to solutions that solve all of our problems at once; solutions that are cheap [...]
Some time in 1986, I walked into Cody’s Books in Berkeley and saw a book on prominent display titled Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin Lee and Bruce Schlain. Containing an impulse to start dancing around the aisles, I grabbed a copy and bought it. [...]
George Washington… Abraham Lincoln… whatever the political realities, they’re American icons to be conjured with. But President’s Day? For your holiday weekend pleasure, Jonathan Coulton’s The President’s Song, written in 2005.
Both the funniest and the most scientific of cyberpunk SF’s fab four, Rudy Rucker’s autobiography Nested Scrolls is a laid back groove, in the best sense. It’s funny, real, a bit off center… yet friendly and so thoroughly engaging that I was sorry that it ended. Maybe Rudy could live another life so that he [...]
Recently, Christoper Mims over at Technology Review wrote a piece and noted that he used the opening graphic from my H+ article (Adding Our Way to Abundance) which makes me wonder if he’s directing this article at me about how he is sure that 3d printing will go the way that VR did back in the [...]
CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Conference. Yesterday’s opening celebration
