Category Archives: Technology and Society
Didn’t They Make Some Movies About This?
Robots evolve to protect their own.
And so it begins. And wasn’t Skynet supposed to be activated a couple weeks ago?
Bin Laden’s Impenetrable Network
…was penetrated.
It’s good to know that, amidst the TSA follies and other stupidities of the past decade, some people in the government were doing some things right.
What Does He Know?
Jeff Bezos is investing in a fusion company (though as commenters there note, the technical explanation is pretty confusing). Maybe he wants to use it to power his spaceships.
Lower-Speed Rail
China’s rail system continues to not be what it’s cracked up to be by Tom Friedman and other Sinophilic fascists.
An Advantage, Not A Vulnerability
I was at the Reinventing Space conference yesterday, and an AF general gave a speech saying that space is currently an advantage for the nation, strategically, but he fears that it is on the verge of becoming a vulnerability. We have to come up with a new way of doing business.
Anyway, I was thinking about going over today as well, but the Internet was dead when I got up this morning, so I had to hang around here waiting for a Verizon guy to show up. It needed a new modem.
That’s What She Said
Training computers to tell jokes.
Hey, FDA
Hands off my genome. It’s my genome.
The Country’s In The Very Best Of Hands
A third of the FBI’s cybercrime agents are incompetent.
I wish I could say I was shocked.
Ready For The Future?
XKCD has the timeline.