Hugo Awards 2015: Justice Served or Much Ado About Nothing?
So, the most hyped, bitterly fought and controversial Hugo Awards season has come and gone. The ?Sad Puppies? and ?Rabid […]
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Shouldn’t Laws Expire?
Here’s a question for you. Shouldn’t laws expire? Potato chips expire. Hell, even honey has expiration dates (honey doesn’t go
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Does automation liberate or enslave society?
A few things in the news lately have got me thinking about the first books I read by Isaac Asimov
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What follows Capitalism?
Jeremy Rifkin, in his book Age of Access, posits the idea that the commercialization of cultural experiences is the final
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From the Information Age to the Manipulation Age in Three Easy Steps
The information age was supposed to be the great liberator, making the concept of workplace and even nationality moot. Of
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NRN – a light-hearted RFC for “non-binding closure”
Recently I found myself in an e-mail exchange with a person I hadn’t previously known. The exchange related to corporate
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Why isn’t there an Adobe OS?
Why hasn’t Adobe built it’s own operating system? I’ve been thinking about OSs lately, and reading up on SGI’s Irix,