…you can’t get your childhood back.
As someone in my early twenties when it came back, I was a lot less impressed than the kids at the time. After the duds that were Eps 1-3, I’ll probably wait for it to be free on television.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Bootstrapping A Solar-System Civilization
Encouraging thoughts from David Brin on what he calls the “best year for space since the 70s.”
Old Rat Brains
…rejuvenated with an asthma drug.
Faster, please.
Mars Is Safe From NASA
More thoughts on my USA Today piece, over at Ricochet.
Carbon Dioxide
Matt Ridley: Its benefits could easily exceed its costs.
That seems likely to me.
Narrow-View Cameras
I have a project in mind for which I have some unique requirements. I’d like a low-res, narrow-field webcam, robust enough for all-weather outdoor use. I can’t find anything that meets the requirement in a search, but wonder if anyone has ideas for how to hack one? For instance, if it’s got like a five megapixel sensor, could I easily just look at the center of it, without having to process the whole image? I’ll probably be hitching it to a Raspberry Pi 2.
[Update a while later]
OK, it looks like a standard webcam hooked up to a Raspberry Pi 2, with this software, should give me sufficient power to do what I want.
Self-Driving Cars
Why they must be programmed to kill.
Mojave
Popular Science takes a deep dive into the town, its past, and perhaps its future. It’s a tough place, for now, to retain employees.
Regulating Medical Devices
A new paper from Mercatus, citing me and the book. In fact, I used the FDA as another example of a risk-averse bureaucracy in the book.
Dog Years
Lengthening them with a new anti-aging drug. Humans come next.