RRRR! Hit the Brakes...

As ridiculous as this traffic jam in China looks, its somehow a perfect visual metaphor of the chaos that lurks on the edges of industrial society.  A few things go wrong and-- hit the brakes-- we're all stuck...
 


 
 
 
 
 
 

Dragon Naturally Speaking Will One Day Become a Dragon

Voice recognition software improves further--we train it ourselves each time we make a correction.  Excellent!
 
But how cruel the irony will be when the same software is sold to the Department of Homeland Security and used for Big Brother-ish purposes to monitor the populace.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Nirvana Circuitry

The city of the internet--the Paris, the New York, the metropolis of metropolises.  Till our eyes burn out. 
 
All the implicit assumptions within this article--technology as imperative to competition--to claiming territory for oneself-- is exactly how we'll become gross sleek cyborgs.

Nature is a Haunted House

More bits of the puzzle come into focus:  deformed frogs point to boys born with undescended testicles and armies of obese adults.  As if it were invented by a horror writer with Norman Maileresque sexual politics, it sounds like the piss of women on the pill--that all-important pill essential to reproductive freedom--is one of the leading causes of males becoming epidemically... sensitive.
 
Industrial chemicals--for almighty efficiency--and higher yields--more more more!--come back to haunt us, nature taunting us before she exterminates us. 
 
 

Smart Phone Urge Hegemoney

From the front lines of consumer coercion in the must-have-gadget department.

One more opportunity for doom

Booming DNA nanotech of the future.  Or more likely, the stuff of doom.

The Great Sickness of Our Time

Crackberries and Ipods and disconnected humans-- this guy describes the typical scene I observe going home on the bus all-too-often.