We all know the DC riot was pretty bad. We don’t appreciate the response enough. An argument in favor of treading carefully.
Amazon’s Biggest Merger
In honor of Prime Day 2020, an overview of Amazon’s biggest merger: not a merger with peer corporations, but the police state.
State of Dystopia: Coronavirus Edition, May 2020
The state of dystopia for May 2020, mostly about shifting economic power upwards.
Some thoughts on coronavirus
Why I think coronavirus will prompt a shift, long in the making, to greater digitization. More surveillance, more automation, and more of daily life moved online.
Roundup for August 2018 – March 2019
16 stories from August 2018 to March 2019 that prove cyberpunk dystopia is imminent.
Round up for April – July 2018
Hello folks! Sorry it’s been so long. All together, these last four months have been one for the history books, even if we don’t know it yet. This post is really long, so here’s a brief highlights list. An AI joining the International Space Station crew Tommy Hilfiger introduces clothes with computer chips E-hallpass that […]
Covering the face in public should be a popular way of countering facial recognition
I’ve been hesitant to write about this for a while. After months of entertaining the idea in my head, I figured I might as well get it out into writing. Not because it’s a brilliant idea (it’s neither brilliant nor original, at all) but because it’s a cool idea. Well, cool might be the wrong […]
Big Data Needs Big Regulations
This is a short policy brief exploring the the problems posed by Big Data companies and potential solutions. I) Executive Summary Big Data companies thrive on the unregulated control and processing of massive amounts of information. This has resulted in several problems, political, economic, and psychological. Politically, Big Data companies have accumulated disproportionate influence within federal […]
Round up for March 2018
16 news stories from March that are proof we are living in a cyberpunk future.
A list of social media’s Frankensteins
A continually updated list of social media engineers, developers, and executives who have expressed regret over the online world they’ve helped build.