Into and after the viral storm

The path forward now seems pretty clear. First we get through the grim month-and-more ahead, supporting…

Our infected machine

We are handling the first real global crisis since the Cold War with staggering incompetence. People…

Burn the EARN IT Act

I want to talk about malignant incompetence on the part of our elected officials, and this…

May we live in interesting times

It’s never a good sign when, in order to discuss the near future of technology, you…

What happens if a pandemic hits?

What happens if a Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic hits? It’s time to at least start asking that…

DeFiance: billion-dollar finance, million-dollar hacks, and very little value

Over the last year or so, much-to-most of the cryptocurrency world has pivoted from the failure…

The war against space hackers: how the JPL works to secure its missions from nation-state adversaries

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designs, builds, and operates billion-dollar spacecraft. That makes it a target. What…

Everyone loves the coronapocalypse

The 2019-nCoV coronavirus is a global public health emergency of significant concern. It is also, simultaneously,…

Technology is anthropology

The interesting thing about the technology business is that, most of the time, it’s not the…

The marketplace of ideas is a weapons market now

The most interesting thing I saw online this week was Venkatesh Rao’s “Internet of Beefs” essay.…