You Will Be Assimilated
Yes. While you’re busy enjoying your empty, idiot-level “interaction” on Faceborg and so on, just understand that people like Ray Kurzvile of Google are making plans for you. We’ll all be hooked up to...
View ArticleBrave And New
I said recently in an email that I thought Huxley had it nailed—the most effective form of oppression isn’t force and violence. It’s privilege and comfort. Make the prison cell a luxuriant one and they...
View ArticleThe Internet is Boring
Yes. Sometimes, too much is just too much. How can you effectively prioritise (or digest) when an endless, vast swamp—admittedly composed largely of baboon shrieking, chest-beating and effluvia—is at...
View ArticleDog Microchipping & Beyond
Compulsory since April 6th this year, the mandating of microchipping for dogs in the UK (and the rest of the EU, come to that) represents, to my mind, a step too far in this cycle of out-of-control Big...
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