Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed ….

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities..

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold….

We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable popula….

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink..

In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infring….

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little..

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it..

A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to d….

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy..

Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about you….

For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone ….

Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the….

Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influentia….

Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps….

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget..

But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because su….

Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?.

At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sour….

A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determin….

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather..