Entries tagged with: Bad Ideas

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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 on May 22, 2013 10:26 AM

Humanity Plus Talk, "Bad Futurism"

Here's the talk I gave a the Humanity+ conference in San Francisco last December. Entitled "Bad Futurism," it's a conversational version of this post. The video runs about 20 minutes. The very first minute or two of my talk is...

Posted on February 11, 2013 9:55 AM

Ten Rules for Creating Awful Scenarios

1. One change at a time. Too many changes are confusing, so the only approach is to take a single point of difference from today to its logical conclusion. 2. The only changes that matter are technological changes. And by...

Posted on August 15, 2012 2:24 PM

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