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….

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

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

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..

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

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 have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I….

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….

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….

Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell..

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….

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 ….

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

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

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 ….

I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I dont mean people being survivalists, I mean regiona….

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….

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

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