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Category Archives: Technology and Society
Ethanol Straw Men
Bob Zubrin says that people who oppose converting corn to ethanol are Malthusians.
Ummmmm…no.
We’re people who don’t think that government should be distorting the energy markets to buy votes in the Midwest. Also note that in his constant pushing of flex-fuel cars, he completely ignores the performance and engine-wear issues.
Hypermiling?
Extreme tricks for fuel economy.
Our Robot Overlords
This is frighteningly funny.
Moore’s Law
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.