: About Me

I recently contributed a chapter to the book "So Say We All - An Unauthorized Collection of Thoughts and Opinions on Battlestar Galactica" edited by actor Richard Hatch and published by BenBella Books.

I run the advocacy advertising and communications consulting firm SmartMeme Studios. We provide strategic communications, advertising, graphic design and media production services to nonprofits, foundations, green companies and grassroots activist organizations on a fee-for-service basis. My work has appeared most notably in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and Communication Arts.

My afterword to BenBella Books edition of the environmental science fiction classic "The Sheep Look Up" by John Brunner explores America's love affair with toxic chemicals and shows how science fiction can reshape our assumptions about the world. My contributed chapter to the book "The Battle for Azeroth: Adventure, Alliance, and Addiction in the World of Warcraft" follows the trail of "Chinese gold farmers" to uncover a global movement of hackers laundering virtual gold for millions in cold hard cash while exploiting the sweatshop labor of over a 100,000 Chinese gamers.

I have written extensively on the phenomena of the technological singularity. See my Futurist magazine cover story "Exploring the Singularity" for a cautionary environmentalist perspective on technological convergence. My other writings on science fiction, mythology, occult philosophy and social change strategy can be found in the book "Pie Any Means Necessary - The Biotic Baking Brigade Cookbook".

My passion is ...

As a writer I'm exploring how to demythologize certain configurations of imagery and meaning in Western culture that invisibly shape our daily experience of reality and underlay apparatuses of oppression and environmental destruction.

I know too much about ...

Biomass energy power generation

Why I write ...

We are made of stories.

Computers & Technology > Computers & Technology (Other) Will technology take over the world?

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The technological take over of the planet isn't just happening fast. It's happening at an exponential rate, already impacting much of the world. Contrary to the commonsense, intuitive, linear view, we won't just experience 100 years of "progress" in the twenty-first century-it will be more like 20,000 years of progress. The near-future results of exponential technological growth will be staggering: the merging of biological and nonbiological entities in bio-robotics, plants and animals engineered to grow pharmaceutical drugs, software-based "life," smart robots, and atom-sized machines tha...

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