Why I’m Not a TEDx Speaker

Last week I was invited to speak at a TEDx event, and today I turned that offer down. It’s not that I don’t like TED — I think the organisers have done a great service to popularise thought-provoking ideas in an easily-digestible format. And the subject of the TEDx event, centring…

The Ecuadorian Library

or, The Blast Shack After Three Years

How I broke the Ethiopian Airlines #ET702 hijacking on Twitter

11:05pm: “OH MY GOD A PLANE HAS BEEN…

The Red Light and the Cloud

A history of the future of sex work

The future of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality: Alternative Reality

A vision over the next 10…

Some words of advice for young people

… because Bill Burroughs is out of town.

—Hey, mister – should I go to university next year?

That’s a big question, my friend. Why ask me?

Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’: the most important science fiction movie never made

Before ‘Star Wars’ and…

Special Economic Zone

Fiction from the supply chain