Humanity
On the New Nature of Reality
Imagine coming across this picture on the internet: A person is viciously hitting an old lady, who is leaning back on her walker for support, face horrified. A stream of blood flows from her nose while the perpetrator gleefully mugs…
Quarantine Cyberterrorism
A number of years ago, I was hired by an IT firm to help test their network defenses at a secure facility. I went on-site in plain clothes, sat in a public area, got on the public WiFi, and attempted…
On the Twentieth Anniversary of My Father’s Death
I’ve thought for weeks about how I would approach this day, what I would write. In the end, I didn’t even know where to start. The simple truth is, my dad has been dead exactly twenty years today. My thoughts…
First, Mankind
Last Sunday, I saw “First Man”, a film about NASA’s run-up to the Apollo 11 moon landing. It’s told primarily through the eyes of Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) and his family. I was just over a year old when the…
