Whenever I see one of Waymo’s driverless cars tooling around town, I think of the Johnny Cab from Total Recall. We may not have colonies on Mars yet, but watching
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In Part I of this series, I looked at the surprisingly difficult problem of cooling a data center in space. In Part II, I explored the damage cosmic radiation can
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Mark Cuban was recently asked a question about artificial intelligence that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. Not whether AI works. Not whether it will transform business. Not whether it will
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In Part I, I wrote about one of the counterintuitive problems with putting data centers in space: cooling them. Space may be cold, but a vacuum doesn’t give you air
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Years ago, Sun Microsystems ran a recruiting ad with the headline: “We’re looking for good ideas.” I remember a friend seeing it and immediately responding, “Please give us some.” That
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Putting data centers in space sounds like one of those ideas that makes perfect sense—as long as you don’t think about it for too long. AI requires staggering amounts of
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I came across a fascinating piece by historian Jill Lepore in Wired this week that put words to something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Silicon Valley’s billionaires love
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One of the joys of writing science fiction is asking outrageous questions. What if humanity built cities on Mars? What if we discovered new laws of physics? What if we
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One of the strangest things about the Space Age is that we’ve spent decades thinking of space as empty. It isn’t. At least not anymore. Thousands of active satellites now
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I’ve never been a fan of dark matter. That probably sounds odd coming from someone who writes science fiction, but my objection has never been to speculative ideas. It’s been
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