Open the Future

A World in Which

(This is the full text of a talk I gave at the Institute for the Future on 21 October 2015, as part of the "New Body Language" workshop on wearable/"body area network" technologies for the Technology Horizons program.) Why...

Posted by Jamais Cascio on October 22, 2015 9:45 AM

Unwittingly Participating in the Panopticon

This does not seem like a good combination: The FBI wants (has?) backdoors to monitor Skype (along with other Internet telephony apps); tellingly, there's already concern that such backdoors are open to non-FBI intruders. The soon-to-arrive XBox One has Skype...

Posted by Jamais Cascio on May 22, 2013 10:26 AM

Push-Button Gunsmithing and the Long Arm of the Law

California state Senator Leland Yee wants to stop people from being able to print out firearms with 3D printers. Like many other folks, Yee was startled by the work of Defense Distributed, a group working on designs for guns that...

Posted by Jamais Cascio on May 14, 2013 2:30 PM