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2026 36

  1. A Proposal for Universal National Service
  2. Weekly Links, 10/23/2026
  3. Most Improbable Agent of You
  4. Swarm Intelligence
  5. Weekly Links, 10/02/2026
  6. Robot Basketball
  7. Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Use
  8. Weekly Links, 09/04/2026
  9. A Billion Dollars
  10. Without a theory of intelligence
  11. Weekly Links, 08/14/2026
  12. Worldbuilding with Spatial Intelligence
  13. Weekly Links, 08/07/2026
  14. 88 Prompts for Long Term Thinking
  15. Weekly Links, 07/31/2026
  16. Protopia
  17. Latent Space as a New Medium
  18. Weekly Links, 07/10/2026
  19. Quiet, My Exoself
  20. Why Are LLMs Smart?
  21. Conscious or Not
  22. Weekly Links, 06/05/2026
  23. AIs Want to Be Honest
  24. Your Most Improbable Life
  25. The Emergent Self Loop
  26. Our Uncertain Uncertainties
  27. A Catechism for Robots
  28. Weekly Links, 04/17/2026
  29. Weekly Links, 03/13/2026
  30. Three Modes of Cognition
  31. Weekly Links, 02/13/2026
  32. Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids
  33. The March of Nines
  34. Weekly Links, 01/23/2026
  35. Weekly Links, 01/09/2026
  36. How Will the Miracle Happen Today?

2025 27

  1. Weekly Links, 12/19/2025
  2. Weekly Links, 11/17/2025
  3. Essentials for Independent Travel in China
  4. Weekly Links, 10/03/2025
  5. Paying AIs to Read My Books
  6. The Periodic Table of Cognition
  7. The Trust Quotient (TQ)
  8. Emotional Agents
  9. Everything I Know about Self-Publishing
  10. No Limit for Better
  11. Artificial Intelligences, So Far
  12. An Audience of One
  13. Weekly Links, 06/27/2025
  14. Weekly Links, 05/23/2025
  15. Weekly Links, 04/25/2025
  16. Epizone AI: Outside the Code Stack
  17. Weekly Links, 03/21/2025
  18. Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?
  19. Public Intelligence
  20. The Unpredicted vs the Over-Expected
  21. The Self-Domesticated Ape
  22. The Handoff to Bots
  23. 50 Years of Travel Tips
  24. Weekly Links, 01/31/2025
  25. Weekly Links, 01/17/2025
  26. Weekly Links, 01/10/2025
  27. Weekly Links, 01/03/2025

2024 41

  1. Weekly Links, 12/27/2024
  2. Weekly Links, 12/6/2024
  3. Weekly Links, 11/01/2024
  4. Weekly Links, 10/04/2024
  5. Weekly Links, 09/20/2024
  6. Weekly Links, 08/30/2024
  7. Weekly Links, 07/05/2024
  8. Weekly Links, 06/28/2024
  9. Weekly Links, 06/14/2024
  10. Weekly Links, 06/07/2024
  11. Weekly Links, 05/31/2024
  12. Weekly Links, 05/17/2024
  13. Weekly Links, 04/26/2024
  14. Weekly Links, 04/19/2024
  15. 101 Additional Advices
  16. Weekly Links, 03/22/2024
  17. Weekly Links, 03/08/2024
  18. Type 2 Growth
  19. Weekly Links, 03/01/2024
  20. Weekly Links, 02/23/2024
  21. Rights / Responsibilities
  22. Weekly Links, 02/16/2024
  23. The Scarcity of the Long-Term
  24. Hill-Making vs Hill-Climbing
  25. Weekly Links, 02/02/2024
  26. Future Embarrassments
  27. The Trust Flip
  28. Things We Didn’t Know About Ourselves
  29. Weekly Links, 01/26/2024
  30. The Boredom Device
  31. Levels of Wealth
  32. Weekly Links, 01/19/2024
  33. The Tradeoffs in AI
  34. God, the Superposition
  35. The Best Since Sliced Bread
  36. Jobs of the Future
  37. The Slow Frontier of Genetic Choice
  38. How to Walk-and-Talk
  39. Paying people to have children
  40. The Missing Monuments of Silicon Valley
  41. Weekly Links, 01/05/2024

2023 34

  1. Weekly Links, 12/22/2023
  2. Weekly Links, 12/01/2023
  3. Weekly Links, 11/24/2023
  4. Weekly Links, 11/17/2023
  5. Weekly Links, 11/10/2023
  6. Weekly Links, 10/27/2023
  7. Weekly Links, 10/20/2023
  8. Weekly Links, 10/13/2023
  9. Weekly Links, 10/06/2023
  10. The Sphere, a new platform
  11. Weekly Links, 09/08/2023
  12. Weekly Links, 09/01/2023
  13. Weekly Links, 08/18/2023
  14. Weekly Links, 08/04/2023
  15. Weekly Links, 07/28/2023
  16. Weekly Links, 07/21/2023
  17. Weekly Links, 07/14/2023
  18. Weekly Links, 06/30/2023
  19. Weekly Links, 06/23/2023
  20. Weekly Links, 06/09/2023
  21. Dreams are the Default for Intelligence
  22. Weekly Links, 04/14/2023
  23. Weekly Links, 03/31/2023
  24. Weekly Links, 03/24/2023
  25. Weekly Links, 03/03/2023
  26. Weekly Links, 02/24/2023
  27. Weekly Links, 02/10/2023
  28. Weekly Links, 02/03/2023
  29. Cringeworthy in the Future
  30. Weekly Links, 01/20/2023
  31. China’s Immigrant Energy, Underappreciated
  32. 12 Assumptions for Extraterrestrial Life
  33. Overcoming Bias Against Bigness
  34. Weekly Links, 01/06/2023

2022 66

  1. Weekly Links, 12/30/2022
  2. Weekly Links, 12/09/2022
  3. Weekly Links, 12/2/2022
  4. Weekly Links, 11/25/2022
  5. Weekly Links, 11/18/2022
  6. Weekly Links, 09/23/2022
  7. Weekly Links, 09/16/2022
  8. Weekly Links, 09/09/2022
  9. Weekly Links, 09/02/2022
  10. Weekly Links, 08/26/2022
  11. Weekly Links, 08/12/2022
  12. Weekly Links, 08/05/2022
  13. Weekly Links, 07/29/2022
  14. Weekly Links, 07/22/2022
  15. Weekly Links, 07/15/2022
  16. Weekly Links, 07/01/2022
  17. The Need For a Body
  18. Wishful Worries
  19. Robots Will Make Us Better Humans
  20. The Religions of Aliens
  21. Future Scarcities
  22. The Propriety Path Platform
  23. Good Morning, New Robots!
  24. More Wubble
  25. Non-Assigned Names
  26. Weekly Links, 06/24/2022
  27. Not Future-Proofing
  28. The Maintenance of Wealth
  29. Law of Universal Uniqueness
  30. Three Levels of Eugenics
  31. Aliens Are Here on Earth
  32. Training AIs to Make Art
  33. Art / Not Art
  34. Weekly Links, 06/17/2022
  35. Art As an Excuse
  36. Alloception: I Saw Someone In There
  37. The Need for World Government
  38. Construction is Life
  39. What Everyone Knows
  40. The Need for Long-term Research
  41. Growth vs Evolution
  42. Weekly Links, 06/10/2022
  43. How to Future
  44. Reasons to Tour By Bicycle
  45. Truth vs Trust
  46. Weekly Links, 06/03/2022
  47. Weekly Links, 05/20/2022
  48. 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
  49. Weekly Links, 04/22/2022
  50. Weekly Links, 04/08/2022
  51. Dynamic Census
  52. Weekly Links, 03/18/2022
  53. Weekly Links, 03/11/2022
  54. Weekly Links, 03/04/2022
  55. Weekly Links, 02/25/2022
  56. Weekly Links, 02/18/2022
  57. The Big Here Quiz
  58. Weekly Links, 02/11/2022
  59. Weekly Links, 02/04/2022
  60. Movable Futures
  61. Weekly Links, 01/28/2022
  62. Weekly Links, 01/21/2022
  63. Some Contemporary Heresies
  64. Weekly Links, 01/14/2022
  65. Weekly Links, 01/07/2022
  66. Ideas Want to be Shared

2021 63

  1. Weekly Links, 12/31/2021
  2. Weekly Links, 12/24/2021
  3. The Photonic Age
  4. Weekly Links, 12/17/2021
  5. Always-On Spatial Audio
  6. Your Security is My Security
  7. The Third Way
  8. Embracing the Improbable
  9. The Irresistible Future
  10. The Thinkism Fallacy
  11. Still Out of Control
  12. Weekly Links, 12/03/2021
  13. The Tiny Web
  14. The Oil and Water Planet
  15. The Bigger, Better Boom
  16. Weekly Links, 11/26/2021
  17. Pets, Aliens, Spirits, and Slaves
  18. Weekly Links, 11/19/2021
  19. Weekly Links, 11/12/2021
  20. Class 1 / Class 2 Problems
  21. Weekly Links, 11/05/2021
  22. Weekly Links, 10/29/2021
  23. Weekly Links, 10/22/2021
  24. Weekly Links, 10/15/2021
  25. Weekly Links, 10/08/2021
  26. Weekly Links, 10/01/2021
  27. Weekly Links, 09/24/2021
  28. Weekly Links, 09/17/2021
  29. Weekly Links, 09/10/2021
  30. Weekly Links, 08/27/2021
  31. Weekly Links, 08/20/2021
  32. Weekly Links, 08/13/2021
  33. Weekly Links, 07/23/2021
  34. Weekly Links, 07/23/2021
  35. Weekly Links, 07/30/2021
  36. Weekly Links, 07/16/2021
  37. Weekly Links, 07/02/2021
  38. Weekly Links, 06/25/2021
  39. Weekly Links, 06/18/2021
  40. Weekly Links, 06/11/2021
  41. Weekly Links, 06/04/2021
  42. Weekly Links, 05/28/2021
  43. Weekly Links, 05/21/2021
  44. Weekly Links, 05/14/2021
  45. Weekly Links, 05/07/2021
  46. Weekly Links, 04/30/2021
  47. Weekly Links, 04/23/2021
  48. 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice
  49. Weekly Links, 04/9/2021
  50. Weekly Links, 04/02/2021
  51. Weekly Links, 03/26/2021
  52. Weekly Links, 03/19/2021
  53. Weekly Links, 03/12/2021
  54. Weekly Links, 03/05/2021
  55. Weekly Links, 02/26/2021
  56. Weekly Links, 02/19/2021
  57. Weekly Links, 02/12/2021
  58. Weekly Links, 01/29/2021
  59. Weekly Links, 01/22/2021
  60. Weekly Links, 01/15/2021
  61. Weekly Links, 01/08/2021
  62. Concluding our 25-year Bet
  63. Weekly Links, 01/01/2021

2020 14

  1. Weekly Links, 12/25/2020
  2. Weekly Links, 12/25/2020
  3. Weekly Links, 12/18/2020
  4. Weekly Links, 12/11/2020
  5. Weekly Links, 11/27/2020
  6. Weekly Links, 11/20/2020
  7. Weekly Links, 11/13/2020
  8. Weekly Links, 11/06/2020
  9. The Essential Workshop Tool Kit
  10. 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
  11. Second Order Risk
  12. Virus Scenarios
  13. Recent Readings 14
  14. Recent Readings, 13

2019 23

  1. Recent Readings, 12
  2. Recent Readings, 11
  3. Recent Readings, 10
  4. Recent Readings, 9
  5. Cyberweapons: A Real Worry
  6. Recent Readings, 8
  7. Arrival of the Babel Fish
  8. Dumbsmarten
  9. Ingenic
  10. Recent Readings, 7
  11. Recent Readings, 6
  12. Recent Readings, 5
  13. Progress and the Randomized Time Machine
  14. Recent Readings, 4
  15. Asian Innovation
  16. The Super-Power of Reading
  17. The Underpopulation Bomb
  18. Recent Readings, 3
  19. Lie Detection
  20. Recent Readings, 2
  21. Virtual Live-Action in a Virtually Real Film
  22. Recent readings
  23. Data Manifesto

2017 1

  1. The Myth of a Superhuman AI

2015 4

  1. Why I Don’t Worry About a Super AI
  2. Sourced Quotes, 21
  3. AI, or Alien Intelligence
  4. Sourced Quotes, 20

2014 9

  1. How to Use Artificial Intelligence
  2. A Desirable-Future Haiku
  3. What Bits Want
  4. You Are Not Late
  5. Platforms Trump Products
  6. The Least Resistance to New Ideas
  7. The Technium Test
  8. Sourced Quotes 18
  9. Rules for Cyberwar

2013 11

  1. Bypassing Sold Out
  2. Sourced Quotes, 17
  3. The Self-Publishing Route
  4. The Pleasures of a Paper Book
  5. Sourced Quotes, 16
  6. Personal Shadow Outsourcing
  7. I’ll Pay You to Read My Book
  8. The Improbable is the New Normal
  9. Pain of the New
  10. The Decisive Hour
  11. The Post-Productive Economy

2012 24

  1. Pre-Globalism
  2. The Average Place on Earth
  3. Myth of the Lone Villain
  4. Sourced Quotes, 15
  5. Robot, Child of God
  6. The Rule of Transformation
  7. I See Cats
  8. User Pre-Funding
  9. Sourced Quotes, 14
  10. Cosmicism
  11. Filling Turing’s Cathedral
  12. Sourced Quotes, 13
  13. The Ciphers of Social Media
  14. Next Phase of Commercials
  15. Fixity vs Fluidity
  16. The Next Transitions in the Technium
  17. Life at the Edge of Space
  18. Undetectable Technology
  19. We Are Stardust
  20. A Whole Lot of Nothing
  21. Making Holes in Our Heart
  22. Sourced Quotes, 12
  23. What the Public Commons Is Missing
  24. Beyond the Uncanny Valley

2011 315

  1. Supercut Genre
  2. Sourced Quotes, 11
  3. On the Origin of Technological Species
  4. Steam-Engine-Time
  5. Hangout With the Technium
  6. Irreproducible Results
  7. Asia Grace Time Machine App
  8. Plateau of Progress
  9. The 7 Stages of Robot Replacement
  10. The Technology of Global Unrest
  11. You Are a Robot
  12. Culturomics
  13. What You Don’t Have to Do
  14. The Paperback Option
  15. Found Quotes, 10
  16. The Art of Burning Man
  17. Theological Chatbots
  18. Environments Are Invisible
  19. The Futurist’s Dilemma
  20. Why the Impossible Happens More Often
  21. Self-publishing Today
  22. Found Quotes, 9
  23. Generatives
  24. Your Two Things
  25. Cities Are Immortal; Companies Die
  26. McLuhan at 100
  27. The California Ideology
  28. The Internet Is My Religion
  29. A New Corner in the Future of Advertising
  30. Family of Five Tandem
  31. The Rippies, New Yippies on the Right
  32. Portal to the Id: World Weekly News
  33. Proverbs for the Future
  34. Remix of Out of Control
  35. Oldest Living Things in The World
  36. Evolution of Origin of Species
  37. Social Media Venn
  38. Crowdsourced 3D City
  39. Very Short History of the Planet Earth
  40. Free Wins Against Malaria
  41. Effective Apology Skills
  42. Crowdsourced Music Video
  43. 650 Million Years in 1.2 Minutes
  44. The Long Book
  45. Five Unstoppables
  46. How to Get People to Pay
  47. Innovative Publishing Model
  48. Investigative journalism by amateurs
  49. Map Label on Package
  50. Taxonomy of Internet Maps
  51. The Internet Mapping Project
  52. Never underestimate the web
  53. Digital Socialism
  54. Galactic Center Rising
  55. Vanishing Muslims and the Shift to Africa
  56. Digital Recovery of Moon Images
  57. Bendy Map Projection
  58. Found Quotes
  59. The Persistence Paradox
  60. Building the 10K Clock
  61. Computational DNA
  62. Particles Have Free Will
  63. Taxonomy of Business Models
  64. The Greatest Waster of Time
  65. Not Your Usual Trends
  66. Worldbuilding 2
  67. The Worldbuilder Interface
  68. The One Universal GoogleBook
  69. Free Genetic Testing
  70. Network Nation
  71. Slumdog Tourism
  72. Lifehacking, the Whole Earth Catalog Archive
  73. Notable Blogs/List of Lists
  74. Breakup of the USA
  75. Wooden Horses
  76. Whole Earth Video
  77. If Your Website Were a Person
  78. Earning Money From the Free
  79. The Next 1000 Years of Christianity
  80. Eye-Cam Wanted
  81. Flag of Earth
  82. Long Clock, Big Gear
  83. The Whole Earth Blogalog
  84. Pranksters 2.0
  85. Hi-Tech Ocean Row Boats
  86. Heinlein’s Fan Mail Solution
  87. Truman Show Delusion
  88. The Wisdom of Public Prediction Markets
  89. Other Isomorphic Keyboards
  90. The End of Video as Evidence of Anything
  91. Neal Stephenson and the 10,000-Year Clock
  92. Looking For the Mouse
  93. New Geometric Keyboard
  94. Me-to-We Opening Ceremonies
  95. Where Quotes Come From
  96. Friendability
  97. Outstanding in the Field
  98. The Next 5,000 Days
  99. How to Make New Things
  100. Face Swapper Privacy
  101. Chips of Broken Glass
  102. GoogleUnique Names
  103. Beach Art
  104. Tangible Interface
  105. The Unclear Origins of Oil
  106. Follow the Moon
  107. China Is an Island
  108. Unthinkable Futures
  109. The Million Dollar Long Bet
  110. The Power of Failure
  111. Airblades
  112. Tools for Vizuality
  113. The Worth of Recommendation Engines
  114. Symbiotic Fanfic
  115. Real Fake Self-Portraits
  116. Bribe Your New Employees To Quit
  117. NAQ – Never Asked Questions
  118. The Giant Pool of Money, Explained
  119. Painted Films
  120. Junkyard Sports
  121. Astounding Animated Wall Mural
  122. VR Bubbles
  123. Poptimistic
  124. Ghost Bikes
  125. Tour of World Cities at Night
  126. McLuhan, Web 2.0 Master
  127. Self-Generating Money vs. Productive Wealth
  128. Your Eternal Webpage
  129. The Anti-Portfolio of Investments Not Made
  130. Control Rooms: From Temples to Thrones
  131. Digital Things I’ve Been Wrong About
  132. Single Note Control in Recorded Music
  133. Evolution of Proteins Animated
  134. Governing Sovereign Wealth Flows
  135. Country Code Map
  136. Wiki Correction-Stream
  137. Car Tattoos
  138. Results from an Experiment in Ad-Driven Books
  139. Testing the Veracity of the Internet
  140. Material Fingerprints
  141. A Web Page For Every Species
  142. HyperReal Homer
  143. Consensus on Colors
  144. Short Is In
  145. Tools for Big Love
  146. Yuri’s Night
  147. The Wikipedia Deletion Wars
  148. Non-Commodificable in Newsprint
  149. BIL, the Unconference
  150. Evolution and Ontogeny of Game Characters
  151. The Near-Death Experience of Dying in a Game
  152. The Variety of Polyhedrons
  153. The Kitchen Computer
  154. Flash Presentations, 20/20
  155. Live HD
  156. Work Habits
  157. Circle of Life
  158. Subterranean Tutoring
  159. An Eternal Last Goodbye
  160. Defining Waterboarding
  161. Freeconomy
  162. Visual Music Instruments
  163. Downtailing
  164. Playing Digital Games Together
  165. Forest-Fire Marketing
  166. Waterboarding Is Controlled Drowning
  167. Incremental Vs. Discrete Content
  168. The Platform is the Computer
  169. How Buildings Learn
  170. Social Networking Chain-Letter
  171. Election Prediction Markets
  172. The Future Doesn’t Matter
  173. Doomsday Art
  174. Sanctuaries of Disconnection
  175. How Not to Do a Time Capsule
  176. Addiction Vaccines
  177. Videogame Symphonies
  178. Computational Advertising
  179. How To Find a Doctor
  180. Extra-less Films
  181. International Burning Man, 2008
  182. My Dream Machine
  183. The Phone Interface of the Future
  184. The Future is Not Vending Machines
  185. Interactive Petroglyphs
  186. Historicity
  187. The Bridge Between Atoms and Bits: 2D Code
  188. Maximum Philanthropy: Encouraging Giving in Asia
  189. Original Hyper Fake Reproductions
  190. The New Eliza: Chat Marketing
  191. The Way of Japan vs Any Way in China
  192. How to know you know
  193. What Laptops Should Be
  194. The Always On Book
  195. Perfect History
  196. The New Economy Master
  197. Open Immigration: A Basic Human Right
  198. Extreme Pumpkin Carving Art
  199. Retail Dynamic Contextual Pricing in The New Economy
  200. Not Happy With Crappy
  201. The Influence of Science Fiction on Science
  202. Disconnecting the Dark Pools of Liquidity
  203. The New Art of Simpits
  204. Wikipedia: Human-Powered Search
  205. Mutating Art From Chaos
  206. Awesome Musical Tapes From Africa
  207. Interroton Interviewing Machine
  208. American Vagabonds
  209. Internet Allstars Seven Years Later
  210. Big Vegetable Obsessions
  211. ReCaptcha: Artificial AI
  212. Doodle as Interface for Prototyping
  213. Tangible Bouncy Fun
  214. Golden Gate Bridge International Orange
  215. Nerd Humor
  216. David Byrne; From Bauhaus to Yow-howz!
  217. The Case for Accelerating Adulthood
  218. A Year of Following All the Rules in the Bible
  219. Sand Crop Circles
  220. My Life Countdown
  221. 100,000-Year Memory Candidate
  222. Snowkiting
  223. Patients Like Us
  224. Found Quotes, 8
  225. Corporate Long-term-ism
  226. Bootstrapping Steel
  227. Technological Superstition
  228. The Binding Uncertainty of the Present
  229. The Quantifiable Self
  230. Designed in California
  231. Post-Artifact Booking
  232. The Clock in the Mountain
  233. 2019 Unthinkables
  234. A Different Beauty For Space
  235. When Hard Books Disappear
  236. Vertical Gardens
  237. Middle Kingdom Technium
  238. The Stealthy Anonymart
  239. Screening
  240. Producing an International Kindle Version
  241. Makers on Parade
  242. Found Quotes 7
  243. Protopia
  244. Tech Shopping Rules of Thumb
  245. Who’s Your City
  246. 3 Renegades
  247. China’s DNA
  248. Jesus and Divine Evolution
  249. Techno Life Skills
  250. Would You Pay For Search?
  251. Easy Exotic
  252. The Library of Utility
  253. Born Digital
  254. The Invisible Hook
  255. A Humanity-Scaled Wiki Time Capsule
  256. Natural History of a New Idea
  257. The Search for Internet Intelligence
  258. Roar of an Earthquake
  259. The Art of Endless Upgrades
  260. Rapidly Oscillating Evolution
  261. What Books Will Become
  262. A Taxonomy of Gods
  263. No Search Neutrality, Please
  264. The Gravity of Paper
  265. Technologies Don’t Go Extinct
  266. Found Quotes, 6
  267. From Mass to Mesh
  268. Current Uncertainties
  269. Infinite Order in All Directions
  270. Bicycle Haiku
  271. Free-Range Games
  272. Scroll Back Media
  273. Proverbs of St. McLuhan
  274. Multiplexing vs Multitasking
  275. Street Food Trucks
  276. The Satisfaction Paradox
  277. Laser-Back Travel
  278. Crowdmapping Radiation
  279. Found Quotes, 5
  280. The Story of Information
  281. Self-Tracking? You Will
  282. Radical Optimism
  283. Invention and Discovery Are the Same
  284. Passing a Worst-Case Scenario Test
  285. Art Is What You Get Away With
  286. Tipping Asia
  287. Rehearsing for Mars in a Container
  288. Travel Without Baggage
  289. Feature, Product, Company
  290. The Information
  291. Your Attention is Cheap: $2.50/per Hour
  292. Pocket Banks
  293. Found Quotes, 4
  294. The Amount of Information in the World
  295. Nice Air Book
  296. In Praise of the Segway
  297. Simultanology
  298. 99 Cent Books
  299. Computational X
  300. The Stars of 1,000 True Fans
  301. Incorruptible Technologies
  302. The Possiplex
  303. There Aint No Heat Death
  304. Readers of the Screen
  305. The Positive Balance of Technology
  306. Emergent Religions
  307. Google-Unique Names
  308. Free Kindle This November
  309. Found Quotes, 3
  310. Screen Publishing
  311. Nowcasts: Predicting the Present
  312. Modern Ruins
  313. Prophesies of McLuhan
  314. Sky Lanterns
  315. Possibilians vs Agnostics

2010 33

  1. Speaking of the Technium
  2. Book Launch
  3. Forums & Discussions
  4. We, the Domesticated Cyborg
  5. Fresh Physical Books
  6. A New Way of Reading
  7. Found Quotes, 2
  8. Predicting the Present, First Five Years of Wired
  9. Get a Job as a Piracy Snitch
  10. Data-Driven Lives
  11. Two Kinds of Generativity
  12. Your Personal Funsmith
  13. MirrorMan
  14. The Evolution of Evolution’s Evolution
  15. Geeky Music Visualizations
  16. The Long Tail of Life
  17. Myths More Powerful Than Facts
  18. Trickles of Energy
  19. Collections of the Material Subconscious
  20. Giving Life to the Unmoving
  21. As Much Privacy As You Can Afford
  22. How to Thrive Among Pirates
  23. The Shirky Principle
  24. Twitter Predicts the Future
  25. The Portable Window
  26. Virtual Choir
  27. Making Organic Structure Visible
  28. DYI Garage Biotech
  29. Glottal Opera
  30. Nexted
  31. The Game-ified Life
  32. Tending the Garden of Technology
  33. The 2-Billion-Eyed Intermedia

2009 52

  1. Loved Avatar’s World-Making
  2. 1,000 Years of Forgetting
  3. The Web is Large
  4. What Technology Wants, first talk
  5. Penny Thoughts on the Technium
  6. What Technology Wants, first draft
  7. Evolution of the Space Station
  8. Extropy
  9. Ratcheting Up Autonomy
  10. The Most Powerful Force in the World
  11. Expansion of Free Will
  12. Progression of the Inevitable
  13. Was Moore’s Law Inevitable?
  14. Chosen, Inevitable, and Contingent
  15. The Choice of Cities
  16. Why Technology Can’t Fulfill
  17. Triumph of the Default
  18. Future Fossil of the Technium
  19. The Fifth and Sixth Discontinuity
  20. Technophilia
  21. Increasing Ubiquity
  22. Increasing Specialization
  23. Increasing Diversity
  24. Infinite In Some Directions
  25. The Arc of Complexity
  26. Upcreation
  27. Adaptive Basins and Strange Peaks
  28. Ordained-Becoming (Part 2)
  29. Ordained-Becoming
  30. Inevitable Minds
  31. Reasons to Diminish Technology
  32. The World Without Technology
  33. Maps of Knowledge
  34. Ethnic Technology
  35. Expanding Flexibility
  36. The Sudden Appearance of Technology
  37. So Amazing, But Nobody is Happy
  38. Collapsitarians
  39. The Unabomber Was Right
  40. Many Species, One Mind
  41. Amish Hackers
  42. Two Strands of Connectionsim
  43. Open-Source DNA
  44. What Technology Wants
  45. The Cosmic Genesis of Technology
  46. Technology, or the Evolution of Evolution
  47. Better Than Owning
  48. Consequences of Technological Convergence
  49. As If
  50. Evolution of Bots
  51. Fossil Cities
  52. A New Kind of Mind

2008 65

  1. Welcome to the Anthropocene
  2. Movage
  3. Technology, a Geological Force
  4. What Comes After Minds?
  5. The Used Future
  6. Curvy Thinking
  7. Screen Fluency
  8. The Missing Near Future
  9. Who Should We Be?
  10. Anachronistic Science
  11. The Pro-Actionary Principle
  12. Recursive Generation
  13. The Origins of Progress
  14. The Ninth Transition of Evolution
  15. Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism
  16. New Kind of Truth
  17. Cloud Culture
  18. The Expansion of Ignorance
  19. Thinkism
  20. Narrow Gates of Inevitability
  21. Where Attention Flows, Money Follows
  22. 13 Generations
  23. Are We Duped By the Technium?
  24. Looking For Ugly
  25. Everything, Too Cheaply Metered
  26. The Landscape of Possible Intelligences
  27. Why People Pirate Stuff
  28. Another One for the Machine
  29. A Trillion Hours
  30. Literature-Space Vs. Cyberspace
  31. People Want To Pay
  32. Fate of the Book
  33. Not Quite Dead Media
  34. Wagging the Long Tail of Love
  35. Is the “First Movable Type” a Hoax?
  36. Neo-Amish Drop Outs
  37. Where the Linear Crosses the Exponential
  38. Power Awareness Quiz
  39. The Google Way of Science
  40. Machine Fecundity
  41. One Dead Media
  42. Will We Let Google Make Us Smarter?
  43. Scenius, or Communal Genius
  44. New Rules for the New Biology
  45. Technologies That Connect
  46. Loving Robotic Jellyfish
  47. Simultaneous Invention
  48. The Cell Phone Platform
  49. Spammer AI
  50. Total Personlization Needs Total Transparency
  51. The Case Against 1000 True Fans
  52. The Reality of Depending on True Fans
  53. The Machine That Made Us
  54. Zillionics
  55. Affluence is Good
  56. Turing’d
  57. Humanity’s Identity Crises
  58. The (Unspeakable) Ultimate Machine
  59. Why Leapfrogging is Rare
  60. 1,000 True Fans
  61. The Bottom is Not Enough
  62. Better Than Free
  63. Lumpers and Splitters
  64. Believing the Impossible
  65. One Trick At a Time

2007 29

  1. Four Stages in the Internet of Things
  2. Loving Technology
  3. A Cloudbook for the Cloud
  4. Technology Wants To Be Free
  5. Dimensions of the One Machine
  6. How Much Power Does the Internet Consume?
  7. The Value of Search, 2
  8. How much does one search cost?
  9. Holy Technology
  10. Invariant Ratio of Lifespan
  11. Harry Plotters and the Prophesies of the Hive Mind
  12. The Gift of Stuff
  13. The Maes-Garreau Point
  14. Every Organism Is a Hack
  15. Bootstrapping the Industrial Age
  16. Ownership Is Use
  17. Dealing With Rogue Technologies
  18. Major Stages of the Technium
  19. Everything That Doesn’t Work Yet
  20. Lifelogging, An Inevitability
  21. Being Is All Maintenance
  22. Expected and Unexpected Inventions
  23. Humans Are the Sex Organs of Technology
  24. A Taxonomy of Minds
  25. The Paradox of Up-Creation
  26. Surprising Continuity of Ancient Technologies
  27. The Evolutionary Mind of God
  28. The Evidence of Progress
  29. Technology, The Movie

2006 21

  1. Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?
  2. Civilizations Are Creatures
  3. Speculations on the Future of Science
  4. The Myth of Leapfrogging
  5. The Rise and Fall of the Copy
  6. Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Technologies
  7. From Slumber to the Fires of Computation
  8. The Forever Book
  9. The Speed of Information
  10. Atom Versus Net
  11. The Computational Metaphor
  12. The Singularity Is Always Near
  13. The Paradoxical Nature of Technology
  14. Immortal Technologies
  15. Identity From What-is-Not
  16. The Futility of Prohibition
  17. The Seventh Kingdom
  18. Speculations on the Change of Change
  19. Major Transitions in Technology
  20. Major Transitions in Biology
  21. On the option of being anonymous

2004 11

  1. Recent Innovations in the Method
  2. Evolution of the Scientific Method
  3. The Name of What We Do
  4. Only One Machine
  5. When Answers Are Cheap
  6. Brains of White Matter
  7. The Number of Species We Use
  8. What Will Big Brains Do?
  9. Cosmic Origins of Extropy
  10. Inventing Our Humanity
  11. My Search for the Meaning of Tech