disruption

Disruption? Yes, let’s talk about disruption. The word summons up demons. Cracks open in the ground, as the crust of the earth swells from an upwelling of energy at the throbbing outskirts of the planet’s core. Out of the jagged

weaponized information, distributed

For anyone following the saga of Defense Distributed and their mission to create a 3D printable gun, that the US government has stepped in and demanded that the designs be taken offline is not a huge surprise. The Liberator, as

in between the ruins on the edge of the salton sea

The Salton Sea in Southern California is the story of an ongoing, gigantic, human-created accident. The Sea is the largest lake in California, residing in a endorheic basin (a basin lower than sea level, without any natural outlet) right above

meet your new wetware manager

Recently researchers at Clemson University accomplished an uncanny feat. A neural network of living neuronal cells was trained to recognize and respond to voltage and speed signals from a simulated electricity power grid. Software was wired directly to wetware, to

submit to the drones

submit to the drones This winter, my co-blogger Adam Rothstein and I used this site to have a conversation about drones. We didn’t start the conversation; we were responding to a growing murmur of voices asking what it meant that

a pleasant post-apocalypse

You don’t need burnt pastures, bleached bones, and a trickle of muddy water in order to understand the apocalypse, as much as it may help. The apocalypse, after all, is more than the destruction of an environment. The apocalypse is

dancing, technology and the plague: death

Voice 1: Fifteen eighteen and it is nigh upon our beloved Strasbourg. Descending always upon the gold stained horizon. Shadowing the pure dewdrops upon our heavenly wheat fields. Whispering its dew stained breath directly upon our waxy ears. Flashing its