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New Column Now Available
I’ve just published the first of what will become a regular feature on Futurismic — weekly columns, each week covered by a different editor. This week I take the podium to talk about politics, why I think it’s a suitable topic for Futurismic and what I intend to cover in future columns
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How Fast Is Your Noggin’?
Seems like a bit of a gimmick to sell their software, but if you’ve got a spare 10 minutes Posit Software’s online brain speed calculator might be a lark. A word of warning: those of us who use Macs apparently think too fast for the test to measure: it’s Windows only.
China’s Bringing Externalities Inside
There’s something slightly ironic in seeing a command and control government like China using the market to try and address environmental problems like deforestation. Chinese restaurant-goers will probably see an increase in food prices as a 5 percent tax on disposable chopsticks is implemented. And car buyers will have to pay more for those high prestige big-engined cars.
Why Airport Security Is Porous
Bruce Schenier does his usual pragmatic evisceration of the conventional wisdom, this time on airport security. Screening bags is a job, he says, that humans do poorly and computers do well. But screening bags is security too late.