Do dogs use quantum teleportation?
A good dog can smell your entangled photons Do you have a dog who barks or sits by the door when a family member is about to return home? Besides being adorable, this curious behavior may lend some...
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The Internet of Refrigerators
The “next big thing” that technology people are predicting is the Internet of Things – household devices that, for some reason, will be connected to the Internet. The most frequently cited example of...
View ArticleCreepy New iPhone 6 Features – #1
When the home button reads your fingerprint it will actually detect the moisture content of your skin. If your skin is too dry, it will dispense a sweet smelling, moisturizing lotion through...
View ArticleCreepy New iPhone 6 Features – #2
Rumor has it that the new iPhone 6 will feature a set of state-of-the-art earbuds that will autonomously seek out your ears.
View ArticleCreepy New iPhone 6 Features – #3
Rumor has it that the new model will include a rotating iBall camera that monitors your facial expressions for signs of customer dissatisfaction.
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The Waterslide of Weirdness
Photo Courtesy of Charles Bodi It wasn’t long ago that computing was solely the domain of nerd-boys like myself whose only hope of social redemption stemmed from Matthew Broderick’s romance with Ally...
View ArticleTo-Do List for When I’m Immortal
Longevity experts say death will eventually be a thing of the past. Once we’re able to manipulate our bodies with cellular precision or digitize our brain patterns so they can be backed-up and...
View ArticleTales to Confound and Annoy
Top complaints from the disgruntled editor of a failing sixties sci-fi magazine. “I’ve got an alternate reality timeline for you. One where I’m not surrounded by incompetence.” “Twist ending, my ass....
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Let’s Redesign Democracy!
Note: I wrote this on election day before the results were in. At that time, it was just a conceptual exercise. After hearing the election results, I’m taking it a bit more seriously. After waiting in...
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The Charming Device
For the past year, I’ve been paying close attention to what’s happening in the world of conversational interfaces and have been posting some thoughts and articles of interest on a blog called The...
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Four Scenes in Which One Character Turns Out to Be a Robot
These are some comedic scenes I’ve been working on sporadically over the last few years. They deal with some uncanny situations that might arise when the line between humanity and technology begins to...
View ArticlePersonality Profiles of Pop-Culture Computers
H.A.L. (2001) This is the big guy. The character to which any conversational computers are inevitably compared. Created by Arthur C. Clarke and brought to the screen in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space...
View ArticleI’m Worried About How We’re Going to Pay for All This
A panic-driven rant about the existential perils of the new economy All right, internet people. Let’s take a minute to appreciate that we’ve got a pretty good thing going. We’ve got apps to help us bum...
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Is it Time to Brighten the Future?
In the bright and shiny world of tomorrow, the sci-fi utopia of our dreams, every human on Earth has food to eat, clean water to drink, and a safe place to sleep. People are free to roam the planet,...
View ArticleWeb3 is Cool, but I’m Actually More into Web5 Now
A lot of people have been talking about web3 lately. As in: “Our next round of investments is all web3,” or “Can someone please explain web3.” Also – it’s not Web 3.0. We dropped the “point 0” a while...
View ArticleWe Could All Use a Crowdfund at this Point
The Comingle team and I recently launched a crowdfund that’s going strong. I’ve been working on this project for a while now and feel like it’s a pretty worthwhile endeavor that could help a lot of...
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