The Book of the Shadows

I don't always do product reviews, but when I do... yada, yada, yada. Today I'm reviewing a relatively recent technology purchase - the Viewsonic VSD220.

Few days are as both entertaining and potentially infuriating as April the 1st. I'll be looking at the fun part.

A new kind of infrastructure project - Should the government step up and get to work on the information super-highway?

I came across an interesting story on Monday and it just struck me as a little odd. It just made me wonder how far we will allow technology to go before we decide its influence on our lives is too much.

As I promised yesterday, today I've got an image to roll out for Drusilla Arenzai. Like in the past, this is a black and white line-art piece that I will be adding color to in the near future.

Yesterday it may have seemed like I was ragging on Project Loon, but that wasn’t really the case. I actually do think it is a novel and ambitious idea. It is a very good idea for solving a precise problem. So that will be my first discussion in this series of posts on technology and society.

I read and watch a lot of science fiction material. That was one of my early theoretical career paths – astrophysics and theoretical physics. Put simply I’m better at creating theories than I am at proving them. One of the things I think about a lot, considering my chosen career, is how science fiction interacts with reality. Because, many things once thought only fiction cross over into the real world, and become fact.