distributed computation Archives - Boing Boing Staging

happy mutants Excellent explainer: how consensus algorithms (including Bitcoin/blockchain) work Cory Doctorow

makers Here's how to make a "computer on a card" from the 1960s Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants The People's Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism Cory Doctorow
security Internet of Battle Things: a militarized IoT where "cognitive bandwidth constraints" require "autonomous cyber agents" Cory Doctorow
urban theory How citizenship-for-sale and statelessness change cities Cory Doctorow
security The democratization of censorship: when anyone can kill as site as effectively as a government can Cory Doctorow
the future In the future you will own nothing and have access to everything Kevin Kelly
fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow
web theory Bitcloud: Bitcoin-like "distributed autonomous corporations" that replace Youtube, Facebook, etc Cory Doctorow
politics Charlie Stross: Bitcoin should die in a fire Cory Doctorow
Computing pioneer Larry Smarr and his quantified self David Pescovitz
security Prime Suspect, or Random Acts of Keyness Glenn Fleishman
Technology HOWTO make a secure, decentralized, human-readable name system Cory Doctorow
Technology Why, no, I am not one bit afraid of these swarming, flying robotic drones Xeni Jardin
Games Chimerical Avatars and Other Identity Experiments from Prof. Fox Harrell Elisabeth Soep
Robot gardeners David Pescovitz
Economics of Malware Cory Doctorow
More on crypto and online casinos Cory Doctorow
Themepunks part two: hacking Linux-based Elmo clusters Cory Doctorow
Electric Sheep artificial life DVD launch March 31, San Francisco Cory Doctorow