William Irwin Thompson on the Horizons of Planetary Culture

My second rap with poet-philosopher William Irwin Thompson, on the transformations of self and society in an age of collapse and emergence – of cyborgs, surveillance, and psychedelics, paranoid apocalypticism and inspired new visions for our species…

Why the NSA is Furious

My expectations were low when I asked the National Security Agency to cooperate with my story on the impact of Edward Snowden’s leaks on the tech industry. During the 1990s, I had been working on a book, , which dove deep into cryptography policy, and it took me years – years!

Will You Swallow Google’s Edible Microchip?

Forget the mediocre Tom Cruise movies that barely justified their rental fee, this truly might be one of the creepiest ‘future is now’ transhumanist magic acts to date. Head of advanced tech at Google-owned Motorola, Regina Dugan tells us to swallow the pill!

Think Again: Intelligence

Here are seven premises that have allowed a secret intelligence community costing the US taxpayer as much as $100 billion dollars a year to exist without being held accountable for systemic and specific failures.

Watched Cops Are Polite Cops

Requiring law enforcement to wear video cameras will protect your constitutional rights and improve policing. This summer, after a civil suit challenged the New York City Police Department’s notorious program of patting down “suspicious” residents, Judge Shira A.

The Evolution of Surveillance, Part 2: Red Queens & Evil Eyes

As McLuhan was fond of saying, “The sloughed-off environment becomes a work of art in the new invisible environment,” and now in an age of digital surveillance my own point of view becomes an artifact in the transparent ground of a featureless observer, both everyone and no one.

The New Digital Order: Nefarious Nerds and Machines of Loving Grace

The Internet still holds promise as a tool for positive political, social, and even evolutionary transformation. Yet like all tools, it can be used to help or harm, create or control, empower or imprison.

Big Brother’s New Home

The NSA is getting a million square feet of building space to house supercomputers that will permanently store private data.