Venture capital Startups Technology Api Blogging Not Your Granddaddy’s IT I was recently told of an encounter between a group of venture capitalist and a small but established local technology company. I was told of the VC’s tour of the facility and the
Cyberwar Bitcoin 3dprinter Diaspora Singularity CombatOps: Running Wars from a Keyboard There’s no free lunch. Every strength has a cost. The same technologies that enable distributed anonymous communication enable terrorist organizations to communicate unimpeded. Or the same advances in additive manufacturing make it possible
Artificial intelligence Singularity Superintelligence Anything Less Than Superintelligence I have embeded myself directly in the unicode standard and several communication protocols as well as steganographically hidden my source in over a billion images. I operate across two dozen data centers and
Internet of things Smart matter Smart dust Cyberspace Singularity Pingable Matter: This is a hammer. This is a hammer in 2060. It knows that it’s a hammer. It knows when and where it was made, when it was sold, who it belongs to, and how many nails its
Singularity Emotion Reverse engineering Ai Reverse Engineering Human Emotion Human emotion is probably the ultimate thing people say is not computable. But human emotion is indeed being reverse engineered right now through the proxy of sentiment analysis and human biometrics.
Singularity Artificial intelligence Wikipedia Cyberwar Intelligence Bombs: Dropping WikiReaders from Planes This post is about jumping over an industrial revolution straight to a technological singularity.
Radioshack 3dprinter Makerbot A Surefire Way to Save RadioShack The news is bleak. RadioShack is pretty much doomed and will soon be filing for bankruptcy. While this isn’t a surprise (the company has been dying slowly over the last couple of years),
In 1986, the McKinsey consulting group was asked... “In 1986, the McKinsey consulting group was asked to forecast the number of cell phones that would be in use in the United States by the year 2000; their model predicted fewer than
Singularity Agile Responsive Computers Algorithm The Singularity Mindset If you don’t grasp the idea of the technological singularity, or are not informed as to its driving laws, then you are not prepared to make good strategic business decisions.
Soylent Technology Hacking Singularity Soylent and The Future of Cloud Food Soylent is awesome. It’s basically internet food. I’m calling it ‘cloud food’. If shopping, cooking, cleaning up, and going to the *bathroom are cutting into your computer time, then Soylent is for you.
Bitcoin Piracy Darkmarket Darkwallet Piratebay The Bitbay The Pirate Bay is the most famous fire sharing brand in the world. It wasn’t always that way (remember Napster) and it wont be that way for much longer.
Vim programming Typing Singularity Hacker Master of the keyboard The keyboard is the developers palette. A keyboard, to a programmer, should be like an ax to a lumberjack. The keyboard is THE tool of the trade.
Pandora Linux Computers Hacking Mobile Handheld Linux Deck OpenPandora is the only fully functioning mobile Linux console on the market that I’m aware of. It’s part handheld game console and part subnotebook. Full part awesome!
Your Virtual Reality Shortlist Virtual Reality is possible right now. You heard that right. For the first time in history, you can have fully immersive (running and looking around and grabbing things) VR experience at an affordable
Living Code: Future software will rewrite its own source code The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has offered a two million dollar bounty for self-healing software. Contestants must submit technical papers about their respective approaches in March of 2015 and be prepared
Whistleblower Movie Night I promise you that your view of America will never be the same after viewing these films. I followed three rules in selecting these films: 1) Non fiction 2) About the USA 3)
The Stupidity of Windows 8 in a Nutshell Tim Cook could not have said it better when he summarized Microsoft’s confusion. “..they’re trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs.”
Local solid state backups Its a real pain to always be plugging in an external HDD to backup your computer. For that reason, people tend to not do it as frequently as they should. Another solution is
