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Marc Andreessen’s Crude and Nuanced Tech Cynicism

Marc Andreessen’s Crude and Nuanced Tech Cynicism

Criticism is hard
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Tim Maly
Mar 23, 2014
Pretty Ramp Machine

Pretty Ramp Machine

What if disability isn’t a medical condition? What if it’s a consequence of bad design?
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Tim Maly
Dec 9, 2013
Planting For the Future

Planting For the Future

Three stories about foresight and oak trees.
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Tim Maly
Nov 27, 2013
Financial Planning for Immortality and/or the Apocalypse

Financial Planning for Immortality and/or the Apocalypse

Caught between the unimaginable and the unthinkable, it’s time to update your pension plan.
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Tim Maly
Nov 19, 2013
The Final Days of Rob Ford

The Final Days of Rob Ford

Live updates from a media death cult.
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Tim Maly
Nov 13, 2013
The Experience Design of Server Farms

The Experience Design of Server Farms

The modern data centre is rows and rows of humming computer cabinets locked behind layers of security. It doesn’t have to be.
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Tim Maly
Nov 6, 2013
Disrupting Slumlords

Disrupting Slumlords

Thanks to the housing crisis, Airbnb users are buying up cheap dwellings as rental properties. So is Wall Street.
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Tim Maly
Nov 6, 2013
A Preliminary Atlas of Robot Killing Fields

A Preliminary Atlas of Robot Killing Fields

 It is difficult to describe a drone strike accurately. 
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Tim Maly
Oct 17, 2013

The Viridian Years

In 1998, Bruce Sterling set out to engineer a green design movement. In 2008, he shut it down. Five years later, it is time to reflect.
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Tim Maly
Oct 14, 2013
Arresting the Unjustly Homeless While They Learn to Code

Arresting the Unjustly Homeless While They Learn to Code

Entrepreneur Patrick McConlogue wants to save a homeless man by teaching him to code. The problem is: fairy tales don’t scale
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Tim Maly
Oct 14, 2013
Tim Carmody has a PhD in Comparative Literature

Tim Carmody has a PhD in Comparative Literature

An open letter to The Globe and Mail’s Russell Smith, who really ought to use Google every now and then. This is going to be relevant to, like, four people.
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Tim Maly
Oct 11, 2013
It is time for the UN to address the USian crisis

It is time for the UN to address the USian crisis

Ongoing crisis between warring tribes in USian gov’t threatens network. Time for intervention.
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Tim Maly
Oct 9, 2013
Tomorrow’s Thomas Friedman

Tomorrow’s Thomas Friedman

Every generation needs someone who can make big ideas small
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Tim Maly
Sep 20, 2013
We Have Always Coded

We Have Always Coded

Why are there so few male programmers? Evolution. A brief history of women’s work in the field of computing
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Tim Maly
Sep 15, 2013
Six Radical Life-Extension Technologies for Transhumanist Consideration

Six Radical Life-Extension Technologies for Transhumanist Consideration

We’ve developed tech guaranteed to extend the human lifespan, but market failures and regulatory bodies stand in the way of universal access.
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Tim Maly
Sep 13, 2013
The Ghost Messages of Yahoo’s Recycled IDs

The Ghost Messages of Yahoo’s Recycled IDs

Without some policy to reclaim them, good usernames are a dwindling non-renewable resource. But re-using names is not without risks.
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Tim Maly
Sep 3, 2013
NSA-Proof Your Email! Consider your Man Card Re-Issued. Never be Afraid Again.

NSA-Proof Your Email! Consider your Man Card Re-Issued. Never be Afraid Again.

In these fearful times of mass surveillance and chaos in the streets, it is important that we protect ourselves. But how?
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Tim Maly
Aug 19, 2013
When we said ‘boil the ocean’ we didn’t mean like that

When we said ‘boil the ocean’ we didn’t mean like that

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Tim Maly
Jul 24, 2013
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Designed a Vacuum Cleaner 

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Designed a Vacuum Cleaner 

He is responsible for the deaths of thousands. They tortured him for years. What to make of these strange moments of humanity?
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Tim Maly
Jul 18, 2013
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