Failing again. Failing better.
Today, Wired posted a snippet of text that explores Winston Churchill’s “Shall We All Commit Suicide” in which he predicts drone warfare–in 1924. The passage points out that Churchill often included imagined futures or alternate histories in his speeches and writings. And Wired points out a possible reason why–Churchill was an admitted fan of science…
A few days ago, a talk by Neal Stephenson (author of the newly-released REAMDE) was posted online. Stephenson recalls how both he and his parents have seen tremendous scientific developments: planes, cars, television, nuclear weapons, space travel. He notes that science fiction authors similarly wrote about about worlds were even more fantastic inventions were commonplace,…
Today Bruce Schneier posted a snippet of Isaac Asimov’s 1956 short story, “Let’s Get Together.” Schneier notes that Asimov predicted security theater 55 years ago. Here’s the clip: “Consider further that this news will leak out as more and more people become involved in our countermeasures and more and more people begin to guess what…