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In the Epilogue of "Murmurs of Earth" (1978), Sagan writes: "It is a difficult computer task to calculate what stars might by chance be along the Voyager spacecraft trajectories 50…

I've always thought that this was the most likely reason for our simulation, and the most telling evidence for it: In a universe where intelligent life is common throughout the gal…

I wish this would catch on again. Swatch Internet Time was a pre-Twitter invention, and the live global connection to one another was weaker than it is now. I'd love to see it supp…

Anonymity doesn't make any "normal person" start spewing death threats and rape threats. The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory is just an excuse bad people tell themselves to justify…

Does this problem (the growing widespread network insecurity of everyday objects) have a specific name, like "security rot"? If it does, I don't know it. I do know that once you gi…

Oops! You're most definitely right about that. Toyota is still making robots. Sony isn't.

It was such a strange mistake for Toyota to abandon their little QRIO robots. Even at their small size, they always seemed to be head and shoulders above ASIMO, and frankly, they s…