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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I was flipping through an old issue of Wired magazine recently—October 2011—and one article immediately caught my eye: Inside Google+ After waves of failure and false starts, the search giant
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As Apple celebrates its 50th anniversary, I’ve been thinking less about Apple itself and more about another company. NeXT. That’s probably not where most people would expect an Apple anniversary
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When most people think about NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the Moon, they think about rockets. That’s understandable. Rockets are dramatic. When they fail, everyone notices. A launch explosion
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One of the reasons I keep coming back to science fiction is that it gives writers a way to put ordinary human beings in impossible situations. Not merely dangerous situations—impossible
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