Carbon Prices Drive Clean Energy Innovation
11 Mar, 2014
I want to point out something I see commonly missed. Carbon prices accelerate innovation that brings down the price of green energy. So do renewable energy portfolio standards, green energy subsidies, and a whole swath of other climate policies. They do this by increasing the scale of…
R e a d M o r eWhat’s Limiting the Impact of GMOs on Global Food Security?
26 Feb, 2014
My friend Jon Foley, who I have a great deal of respect for, has a piece up arguing that GMOs have failed to improve global food security because they fall into a trap of reductionist thinking. With due respect to Jon, I see this a…
R e a d M o r ePublishing – We’re All On the Same Side
19 Feb, 2014
There’s been a vigorous and at times antagonistic conversation about publishing and self- vs. traditional- publishing routes going on lately. I’ve been resisting joining in too much, both because I have a book on deadline, and because I have friends on both sides of this…
R e a d M o r ePresident’s Proposed NSA Reforms are Insufficient
17 Jan, 2014
Today President Obama announced a set of proposed reforms to the NSA. They are woefully insufficient. Congress and the courts need to act. Here’s a storify of my tweets on the topic. [<a href=”//storify.com/ramez/what-s-missing-from-obama-s-nsa-reforms” target=”_blank”>View the story “What’s Missing from Obama’s NSA Reforms” on Storify</a>]
R e a d M o r eTEDx Talk: Linking Human Minds
13 Jan, 2014
Video of my TEDxRainier talk, on Linking Human Brains, is now up. This is all about the current science of sending sights, sounds, and sensations in and out of human brains, and the frontiers of augmenting and transferring memory and intelligence. I loved giving this…
R e a d M o r eThe Shrinking Dominance of the Big Dogs in Tech
12 Jan, 2014
"In 1981, the top ten technology companies represented 95% of the global IT market cap. Today, that share has fallen to 26% and the ratio continues to fall." Microsoft, IBM, DEC, HP, and so on were once titans. Apple, Google, and Facebook may be…
R e a d M o r eNexus and Crux: A Double Kindle Daily Deal
4 Jan, 2014
My sci-fi thrillers Nexus and Crux are BOTH Kindle Daily Deals today, marked down to just $1.99 each. These are books that have been praised by NPR, Wired, the Wall Street Journal, BoingBoing, Ars Technica, Charlie Stross, Alastair Reynolds, Cory Doctorow, and many many more.…
R e a d M o r eNexus on Sale for $2.99 on Kindle – One of NPR’s Best Books of 2013
28 Dec, 2013
Amazon currently has Nexus – recently named one of the Best Books of 2013 by NPR – on sale for just $2.99 on Kindle. Not sure how long this will last. And for those who prefer fantasy romance novels, you can check out the Best…
R e a d M o r eArctic Sea Ice: Less in November 2013 than Summers Before 2006
26 Dec, 2013
(This is a correction of a previous post that stated that there was less Arctic sea ice in December than in any summer before 2007. That post used a PIOMAS anamoly graph, which was not appropriate.) The Arctic is melting. That's a problem. Ice reflects 90% of…
R e a d M o r eNexus: One of NPR’s Best Books of 2013!
4 Dec, 2013
I'm delighted to find that NPR has named Nexus as one of their Best Books of 2013. It's on both the Science Fiction / Fantasy list and the Mystery / Thriller list. On the SFF list it's up there with books by some of my favorite…
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