Weekend at Osama’s

I love conspiracy theories.  My favorite book is the Illuminatus! Trilogy.  UFOs, the Grassy Knoll, I’m there.  Of course, as a connoisseur of the form, I am most fond of those conspiracies that are actually plausible.  (The ones that actually happened are best of all.) I’ve just run across a Read more…

Death of a Business Model

Historically, almost every significant economic crash has been due to one factor of the human psyche, the inability to conceive of change. Not adapt to change; we’re pretty damn good at figuring things out after the fact. Beforehand? Not so much. Entire industries collapse because of the assumption that the Read more…

Tomorrow’s economy.

I’ve gone on at length about the replicator economy, what will happen to commerce as the cost of “stuff” goes to zero and the ability to copy anything becomes ubiquitous. Understanding the implications of this is going to make the difference between success and failure for whole industries. It also Read more…

Singularity Happens

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. wrote a long post on his blog on why he believes the singularity won’t happen. [via SF Signal] According to Modesitt, it won’t happen because such visions are based on technology, not on humanity and they’re based on a western European/North American cultural chauvinism. He goes Read more…