If our economy is based on people buying goods and services, people having money…
The Poisonous Underside of the Sharing Economy
It’s easy to celebrate the new (sharing, or peer) economy that’s emerging…
Humans Leave Earth as Computers
I think humans will leave earth as computers. What does that mean? People have…
Solar Covered Roads
From Techcrunch: Here’s an idea crazy enough that it just might work: Pave the…
Technical Extremes
From Variety: Music sales continued their free-fall during the first six months…
Predicting the Future Using Twitter
From pbs.org: After EMBERS ingests the raw data, it gleans a variety of metadata,…
A World Without Middlemen
I’m fascinated by a trend that’s been accelerating over the last several…
The Future of Work
The job economy is about to get Ubered. If you’re not familiar with Uber,…
Measuring the Quality of a Culture
May 10, 2014 I think a lot about the various influences that interact to create…
The Post-work Epoch
I am fascinated by how the ways we think about things change over time. Big things.…
Anatomy of a Perfect Life Together
My girl and I were talking the other day about getting old together. We don’t…
Thoughts About ‘Her’
I just finished watching Her, the movie with Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Scarlett…
The Poor Have More Meaning in Their Lives
Waiting for Meaning, by Marlene Dumas While residents of wealthy nations tend…
A Drone-based Delivery System
I read an article recently talking about consumer drones. It was a good piece,…
Personal Drone Attacks
I’m surprised we haven’t heard more about small, prosumer drones being…
Skills of the Future
I enjoy thinking about what the future will require from humans in terms of skills.…
Wuffie and Wireless Power
In Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow wrote about the concept of…
3 Trends for an Advancing Human Civilization
One of my favorite things about true learning is that it magnifies itself. True…
The Future of Human Identity and Reproduction
November 12, 2012 I believe western civilization to be in the middle of a profound…
Being Smart in the 21st Century
Boredom and stupidity are linked because curiosity cures both. I just don’t…
Recording and Replaying Experiences
One of the things I worry about most is not being able to recall the great experiences…
The Individual Problem
I believe that humans transferring their minds to digital form is inevitable.…
Some Thoughts on the Future of IT
I see the cloud as a means by which business units will disentangle themselves…
PageRank for People Rather Than URLs
This is an interesting post about how the concept of PageRank for URLs is becoming…
The Steam, Water, and Ice of Modern Communication
A friend recently forwarded me an email I sent to him in 2004. It was part of…
