Weird Future

Criticism is hard

What if disability isn’t a medical condition? What if it’s a consequence of bad design?

Three stories about foresight and oak trees.

Caught between the unimaginable and the unthinkable, it’s time to update your pension plan.

Live updates from a media death cult.

The modern data centre is rows and rows of humming computer cabinets locked behind layers of security. It doesn’t have to be.

Thanks to the housing crisis, Airbnb users are buying up cheap dwellings as rental properties. So is Wall Street.

 It is difficult to describe a drone strike accurately. 

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.

Entrepreneur Patrick McConlogue wants to save a homeless man by teaching him to code. The problem is: fairy tales don’t scale

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.

Ongoing crisis between warring tribes in USian gov’t threatens network. Time for intervention.

Every generation needs someone who can make big ideas small

Why are there so few male programmers? Evolution. A brief history of women’s work in the field of computing

We’ve developed tech guaranteed to extend the human lifespan, but market failures and regulatory bodies stand in the way of universal access.

Without some policy to reclaim them, good usernames are a dwindling non-renewable resource. But re-using names is not without risks.

In these fearful times of mass surveillance and chaos in the streets, it is important that we protect ourselves. But how?