On the (Augmented) Media
"Sixth Sense," my interview with NPR's On the Media, talking about augmented reality, went live this weekend. Here's the audio: (MP3 download also available.)

New Fast Company: The Meowtrix
My new Fast Company essay is now up, looking at the news that IBM researchers have produced a cortical computing system with the connection complexity of a cat's brain. (My original title is shown here on the illustration; the replacement title is a bit inaccurate and I've suggested a replacement, so let's just m

Radio Silence
Sorry for going quiet for the last few days -- I've been in Vienna, Austria, giving a talk at the "Future Space" event. That bit is done, but now I'm off to another project. The trip included the surreal experience of being interviewed by Die Presse, Austria's newspaper-of-record -- an interview which, of course, included photographs. And the photographer got a bit... artsy.

Blasphemy
Superfreakonomics author Steven Levitt has been fighting against the myriad critics going after him for the many, many mistakes in (at least) the global warming section of the book. Interestingly, a phrase that keeps coming up in his rebuttals is "I'm not sure wh

The Singularity, In Five Slides
The Singularity, in Five Slides from Jamais Cascio on Vimeo. Three minute excerpt from the New York talk. (Warning -- about halfway through, somebody bumps the camera, making a loud noise.)