Lileks has a righteous rant on the subject. Buck-sucking fail boxes indeed.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
A new protein has been found that may be effective against them.
Faster, please.
Inspiration Venus?
Jon Goff has an interesting blog post. Also, scroll through recent entries for a lot of useful speculation about utilizing Venerian resources. In many ways, Venus is a more interesting candidate for colonization than Mars is.
A Mathematically Literate World
What headlines would look like there.
Obviously, I disagree with the one on global warming. “Consensus” is not a scientific term. And even if it were, it’s not close to 90%.
Safe Is Not An Option
I didn’t expect the book to be available for purchase at Amazon for another couple weeks. This
Working on e-versions now.
Life Extension
Looks like Google is serious, if they’ve hired Cynthia Kenyon.
This, like opening space, is something that the government isn’t going to do, for the same reason. There are too many powerful interests invested in the status quo.
International Air Travel
We’ve come a long way.
California High-Speed Land Grab
Despite the fact that the project is essentially dead, the state is continuing to move forward with eminent domain.
4K Televisions
Why you shouldn’t buy one this year.
In addition to the standards issues, I don’t think there’s much content yet.
Derailing High-Speed Rail
I’m glad that the idiotic project is dead, but it should have died for sensible reasons, instead of being strangled by California’s (and the federal government’s) own red tape:
Our legal systems are increasingly so cumbersome, so slow and so expensive that they are a serious drag on productivity and growth. Just as teachers unions oppose reforming public schools that cost too much and do too little, professors and administrators fight to preserve a dysfunctional university system, and a multitude of vested interests drive up costs in the health system, the “legal system lobby” is more interested in the financial health and social power of its members than in the public good.
The whole system, both in California and in DC, needs an overhaul.