Six Science Fiction Novels (and Then Some) to Read in the Age of Trump

I wanted to present a list of speculative fiction novels that have helped me understand the election of Trump, and inform my view of how things will unfold. This list doesn’t claim to be anything other than…

Straight White Dudes Go To Mars

What happens when sexuality gets used to create strangeness in science…

Bitcoin’s Structure Problem

“The Tyranny of Structurelessness” and why decentralization isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

The 4 Craziest Ways Real Life Will Seem Like Science Fiction in 2014

Leaps, Bounds, and Falls

Strong AI never shows up. It turns out it’s just too hard to code human-like cognition from scratch. By the same…

The Illegible Re-Org

How evolving org structures can lead to strong systems. 

The Night Sky

Memories of a rural Alaskan youth

Cicada Media

There are a number of science fiction novels where the net is this turmoil of code/object/beings that fight each other in this memetic…