A plan for an inside-out upside-down skyscraper in Mexico City.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Facebook Is Tracking Your Every Move On The Web
Here’s how to stop it.
The End Of The Future
I missed this earlier, but last week Peter Thiel had a long and pessimistic essay on the stalling of American innovation.
Skills That Recent IT Grads Are Lacking
Seven of them. It’s probably a problem with technical degrees in general, not just IT.
It’s The Space Settlement, Stupid
I have some Columbus Day thoughts this morning over at Pajamas Media.
“The Other Man In My Marriage”
…was Steve Jobs.
I remember that Popular Electronics cover well. I was a subscriber, and I wanted one to play with, but couldn’t justify the money for it at the time (I had just been laid off from my job as a VW mechanic in the 1973 recession, and had decided to go back to school). I remember wondering what I would actually do with something that could only be programmed by toggle switches from a front panel in assemblermachine language.
The EPA
Why it’s rational for Republicans to oppose it. It’s good policy and good politics.
A cleanAn ultra-clean environment is a luxury good. We’re broke.
Is Wireless Internet Intrinsically Unreliable?
Or is it just me?
[Saturday morning update]
To answer questions in comments, I have a Linksys and my Verizon FIOS modem/router. Both connections can be flaky, though the Verizon is usually a stronger signal. They’re both on a different floor (below) than the Roku, and almost opposite corners of the house. I could run ethernet, but it would be a pain.
Haptic Exoskeletons
…that allow the paralyzed to walk. Not a flying car, but it seems pretty twenty-first century.