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Techspoitation
Nine years of everything
Don't ever stop ruthlessly criticizing everything that exists. It's the only way we'll survive
The new privacy
The National Security Agency may be about to gain access to the phone calls and Internet activities of millions
This ain’t the singularity
Has the whole idea of world-changing technology finally become nothing more than an advertising jingle?
A space colony in Wisconsin
The United States' only feminist sci-fi convention grows ever larger
The Internet dystopia
Increasing constraints on freedom to innovate with technology cloud the Web's future
Obligatory video game outrage
Grand Theft Auto 4 -- intriguing, elaborate, disturbing, and disturbed
User-generated censorship
Just as the Web is making it easier for crowds to collaborate, the Web is also making it simple for mobs to crush free expression
English is dead
My glee in the destruction of my own spoken language isn't entirely inspired by knowing language history
Hooker science
Are we still so Victorian that we think it's bad to pay large amounts for a few hours of skin-time?
The users are revolting
Each of these kinds of protests has its correlates in the real world: the symbolic prank, the grassroots protest, and the angry editorial
Your computer is doomed
In the future, your infamy will not be remembered. Is that comforting?
War on science
Science is crucial to the management of the nation, and without it we're no better than a medieval kingdom
You cannot afford Mars
Sure, we know it's not packed with cool aliens, but we haven't realized that hunkering down on another planet isn't going to solve our basic problems as humans
Polite message from the surveillance state
Privacy, spying telcos, and the Protect America Act