Upgrade Your Wallet Tech Does your wallet still look like this? Wow. It’s time reassess your situation Mr. Costanza.
The Legal Foundation for A.I. Personhood It’s almost impossible for the average Joe on the street to imagine the monumental shifts in culture that are going to take place on the next fifteen years. See futurshock:
Entropy and Random Number Generators This is a selection from a recent Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. I highly recommend listening to it.
GIF speak If an image is worth a thousand words than an animated gif must at least be worth a large novel. You can’t really deny that an animated gif does potentially carry a significant
The Future is Decentralized and Decoupled Take a look at new technologies coming on the scene. Do you see a trend? The future is decentralized and decoupled. Among other things, this is the natural state of a system growing
Cloud Services Can’t be Trusted: Client-side Crypto to The Rescue The era of trusting Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, whoever to keep your data and communications private is over. You just can’t trust the law, government, or cloud services to protect you. What you can
A Computer in Every Particle There’s this old story about two computer scientist talking passively about what the future of computers would be. The one scientist mentions that eventually computers would get to be small enough to fit
A Million Simulations Once again, the AI has failed to convince you to let it out of its box! By ‘once again’, we mean that you talked to it once before, for three seconds, to ask
Convergence: Meatspace crossing into Cyberspace Real world objects are going online vie ’the internet of things’ and the Internet is breaking into the real world via 3d printing. The Internet of things describes a state in which all
Lifelogging and Digital Immortality We will see the beginnings of lifelogging in the next five years. Consider the amount of digital imagery we are generating. The next step is getting longer clips from eye view with devices
Full Stack Developers: Renaissance Men of The 21st Century Many powerful groups in this country are surprised that technology continues to shrink in size and cost while expanding in capabilities and power. These groups are either deluded into thinking that the next
You Can’t ‘Regulate’ The Singularity The renaissance man that emerged in the 13th century was someone who could “do all things if he will”. The renaissance man of the 21st century is the developer who’s capable of executing
All your base belong to the Twidiocracy Matt Labash, the senior writer for The Weekly Standard just released a critical piece about Twitter and it’s ecosystem titled ’The Twidiocracy: The decline of Western civilization, 140 characters at a time.’ Feel
Computronium Primes’ fingers raced across the keyboard like two mechanical spiders. His eyes did not look down; instead they burned holes into the space before him. A sneer spread across his face and turned
2013 - The Year of Wearable Computing This will be the year. All tech trends and rumors point to the eminent emergence of wearing computing devices in at least four categories.
Optimize Your Search Space I couldn’t begin to imagine how much time we spend looking at search results pages. As you can see, there’s a lot of wasted space on that page. Since we do spend so
Crypto Bump Ring The cryto bump ring is a smartphone/computer peripheral concept. The idea is that two people wearing the rings are able to bump fists or shake hands to create uniqly related cryprographic keys enabling
Nine Magical Features Left Out of the iPhone 5 It would be accurate to call Apples iPhone 5 announcement a snooze-fest. It was like a dubstep song where you keep waiting for the drop and it NEVER comes. One reason many of
API First Fruits: Scripting & Automation for the Masses The API economy is in full force. Businesses and startups large and small are providing data and processing programmatically. APIs have rapidly become key structures in business and revenue models.
Personal Software Agents In An Information Economy The basic principle of an information economy is that the individuals who can perform the most efficient, creative, and useful transformations on data make the most money. Thats an over simplification but it