Mark Pontin Articles & Dispatches

Mark Pontin — — Writer, Editor, Consultant

The Knowledge

Revolutionary War

The Looming Threat

 

North Korean H-Bomb?

TIA Lives On

Beyond Gravity

China’s ASAT Missile Test — Why?

Weather Engineering In China

Terraforming Earth — New Shades of Green

 

Plan B: Cooling The Planet

Algis Budrys
–1931-2008

Peter Drucker Interview

 

Austan Goolsbee –Obama’s Economist

The Rothschilds & World Economics

Facial Expression Recognition Tech

 

Facial Recognition Tech Beats Humans

The Surveillance Super-Corporations

Confusing Bin Laden & Johnny Rotten

 

Taking the Spy Out of Spying

Artificial Societies & Virtual Violence

A New Vision of Manned Spaceflight

 

‘Failure Is Not An Option’ — Gene Kranz

NASA’s Bold Plan For Private Spaceflight

Technology And the Future of Warfare

 

One: The Democratization of Missile Technology

Two: The Democratization of Cruise Missiles

U.S. Big Weapons Systems — Big Fat Targets In Real war?

 

Rethinking the Unthinkable

On Display: The Unthinkable

Next-Generation Nuclear Power Design

 

Custom-Made Genes: Redesigning Humans

 

Technology And Human Evolution

Neuroengineering:
We Can Build You

 

The New Science of Archeogenetics

Darwin At Large: R. Dawkins & Others

Enhancement – Our Posthuman Future?

 

The Biotech Century

Frankenfoods Redux

Pharma’s Market

 

Nobel winner Leon Cooper Sees Biology & Technology Merging

Sex! Its Past, Its Present, And Its Future

Organ Transplants: The Disturbing Early Days

 

Healthcare Economics for Silicon Valley

How Do Human Sleep & Consciousness Work?

A Brain Implant That Uses Light

 

On Our Way To The Technorapture

The Truth Is Out There

The Field’s Founders Tell Their Stories

 

The Persistence of Vision: Freeman Dyson

The Supermen –Seymour Cray’s supercomputers

Norbert Weiner: Father of Cybernetics

 

The Evolution of Intelligent Machines

John Von Neumann or Mauchly & Eckert?

Parallel Computing Pioneer

 

 

Digital Utilities & Cloud Computing

Seriously, Folks —
Schrödinger’s Money?

A Quantum Leap for Photonic Computing

 

How Japan’s Entrepreneurs Created The Consumer Electronics Era

Games Companies Play: Matsushita Leadership & Do Lunch or Be Lunch

In The Red: China’s Brand of Consumer Socialism Grows Even Stranger

 

In China, Communist Rule & Free Markets Will Be Compatible

Why Not Everyone Will Buy America’s Free Market Ideology

Manuel Castells – Information, Society, and Culture

 

Rescuing Prometheus: Markets’ Limits in Visionary Projects

Storyboard: Selling the Telling of Our Lives

It’s Suburbia, Jim — But Not As We Know It!

 

How Do We Rethink Privacy in the Internet Age?

Choose Valhalla for Your Posh New Digital Age Adress

When Genius Failed: Long Term Capital Management

 

Globalization Hits Nations’ Control of Their Currencies

Basic Instinct:the Past, Present & Future of Money

Follow the Money: the Cash Nexus – Niall Fergusson

 

The Global Battle Between Governments & The Marketplace

Market Rules: The Challenge & Promise of Globalization

Are The Management Gurus Saying Anything Worthwhile?

 

Peter Drucker Had More On His Mind Than The Bottom Line

The Essential Peter Drucker: A Greatest Hits Collection

Michael Wolf Torches Those Whom He Met in the Net’s Early Days

 

 

Irrational Exuberance & Butterfly Economics

Pop Internationalism: Paul Krugman

 

Venture Capital’s Founding Father

 

Tales of Venture Capital Glory

Darwin Among the Machines

 

A Surrealist Manifesto

 

Neal Stephenson And Lawrence Lessig

Larry Ellison And Andy Gove

Runaway Universe And Cosmological Constant

 

India’s Moon Mission

Power Play

Chasing Nano

 

The Invention Of Television

Darwin’s Athletes- Scientific Racism?

E-Commerce & Intelligent Agents

 

Predictions — the Strange Far Future World of 2030-2045

The Expanding Universe of the Early Internet

Ballard & D’Souza On Post-Industrial Leisure Societies