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

computer science Scientists successfully created a biological computer out of E. coli Thom Dunn

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

crime 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