Sirius Textual Selfie: A Few of my Favorite Things
Jan 17
Cypherpunk rising: WikiLeaks, encryption, and the coming surveillance dystopia
Dec 12
The Verge, March 2013
This article, which predates the Edward Snowden affair (ongoing), seems to be getting renewed interest. One thing I would draw your attention to today is the segment that discusses the commercial availability of turnkey systems that can intercept all the communications of a medium sized country. In other words, the next revelation may be about private companies vacuuming up Big Data for their own uses, even without funding from the NSA. This, in fact, is entirely likely to be occurring. Read on…
TRANSHUMAN VISIONS: An Interview with Conference Organizer Hank Pellissier
Dec 2
Hank Pellissier is producing two transhumanist events in the near future, TRANSHUMAN VISIONS in San Francisco on February 1, and TRANSHUMAN VISIONS – EAST BAY on March 1. We pinned him down and asked him what the heck is he thinking?
Steal This Singularity: Entry #1
Dec 1
Acceler80r, October 2012
It was at the end of the first day of the Singularity Summit 2012 when Ben Popper — the dude from The Verge who I’d spoken to by phone — approached. “What do you think?” he asked. “It’s been pretty interesting,” I responded earnestly. The absence of a superlative was perhaps telling, but I was not in the mood to think on it more deeply. Ben agreed. And then Eve and I made a wrong turn heading back to the North Bay and we found ourselves moving at a crawl through Chinatown.
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