Mark Pontin Articles & Dispatches

Writer, Editor, Consultant

 

China’s Anti-Missile Test: Why?

Weather Engineering In China

TerraForming Earth

 

Cooling the Planet

 

The Alien Novelist

Peter Drucker Interview

 

Austan Goolsbee: Obama’s Economist

Outrageous Fortune: How the Rothschild Family Shaped World Economics

Lie Detection

 

Better Facial Recognition Technology

Confusing Osama Bin Laden With Johnny Rotten

 

Taking the Spy Out of Spying

Artificial Societies and Virtual Violence

Towards 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

 

The Missiles of August – 1

The Missiles of August – 2

The Great Transformation

 

Rethinking the Unthinkable

On Display: the Unthinkable

Renaissance in Nuclear Power

 

Custom-Made Genes Redesigning Humans

 

Technology’s Creatures: Essays on Humanity’s Evolution

Building a Better Brain

 

Our Past Within Us: The New Field of Archeogenetics Is Illuminating Prehistory

Darwin At Large

The Genetic Frontier

 

The Biotech Century: the Century of Biology– Red Herring, September 2000

Frankenfoods Revisited: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food

Pharma’s Market

 

 

Transplant: Disturbing Details of the Early Days of Organ Transplants

 

Chronic Ailments; the Hard Economics of Healthcare for IT Vendors

Perchance to Dream: Like Sleep for a Wretched Few, a Complete Explanation of the Mechanism of Human Consciousness Still Eludes Us

A Novel Optical Device Could Ultimately Be Used To Treat Neurological Disease

 

On Our Way to the Technorapture

The Truth Is Out There

Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks

 

The Persistence of Vision: Freeman Dyson

How the Future Was: Seymour Cray and His Supercomputers Are Part of the Secret History of the Twentieth Century

Cybernaut: Norbert Wiener

 

The Evolution of Intelligent Computers: Babbage and Others

The Tangled Debate Over who Invented the First Computer

Profile: Danny Hillis

 

 

The Digital Utility: Cloud Computing

 

Entangled Light, Quantum Money: A Breakthrough Explores the Challenges-the Financial Possibilities of-Creating Quantum Networks

Photonic Computing Takes a Quantum Leap

 

Zen and the Art of Appliances: The Invisible Computer & We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age

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

China’s Breed of Consumer Socialism Grows Even Stranger

 

Privatizing Terror: Former political prisoner Harry Wu believes that in China, totalitarianism and free markets are not imcompatible

America the Triumphal: Why Not Everyone Will Not Buy the U.S. Version of Free Market Ideology

Empire Net: Manuel Castells – Information, Society, and Culture

 

American CreationThe Limits of Markets in Visionary Projects (Rescuing Prometheus)

Storyboard: Selling the Telling of Our Lives

Suburbia Lurches Towards Tomorrow Land

 

The Talk of the Town: You. Rethinking Privacy in an Immodest age

Choose Valhalla for the Posh New Digital_Age Adress

There’s Money To Be Made Applying the Laws of Physics to Free Markets. And Trillion-Dollar Risks Involved.

 

A World of Money: Globalization Is Diminishing National Governments’ Control of Their Currencies

Basic Instinct: the History of Money

Follow the Money: the Cash Nexus – Niall Fergusson

 

Market Rules; the Battle Between Government and the Marketplace

Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization

The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus

 

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

 

 

 

 

Founding Father: A New Book Describes the Man Who Created Modern Venture Capital

 

 

 

There Is No Honor In Cyberspace-Or In Software: Lawrence Lessig & Neal Stephenson

 

 

India’s Space Ambitions Soar

A lunar mission and a reusable launch vehicle are planned.

 

               When people back on Earth ask her, NASA Mission Specialist Joan Nyberg will tell them that for the five days she was here—or what would have been five days, if Saturn’s largest moon wasn’t tidally locked and they hadn’t landed on its permanently Saturn-facing side—the weather was mostly just methane rain continually falling in surreal slow motion from yellow clouds, which scudded across a orange-brown nitrogen-filled sky, at a temperature of —290 °F.

                  When people back on Earth ask her, NASA Mission Specialist Joan Nyberg will tell them that for the five days she was here—or what would have been five days, if Saturn’s largest moon wasn’t tidally locked and they hadn’t landed on its permanently Saturn-facing side—the weather was mostly just methane rain continually falling in surreal slow motion from yellow clouds, which scudded across a orange-brown nitrogen-filled sky, at a temperature of —290 °F.

         When people back on Earth ask her, NASA Mission Specialist Joan Nyberg will tell them that for the five days she was here—or what would have been five days, if Saturn’s largest moon wasn’t tidally locked and they hadn’t landed on its permanently Saturn-facing side—the weather was mostly just methane rain continually falling in surreal slow motion from yellow clouds, which scudded across a orange-brown nitrogen-filled sky, at a temperature of —290 °F.

 

  When people back on Earth ask her, NASA Mission Specialist Joan Nyberg will tell them that for the five days she was here—or what would have been five days, if Saturn’s largest moon wasn’t tidally locked and they hadn’t landed on its permanently Saturn-facing side—the weather was mostly just methane rain continually falling in surreal slow motion from yellow clouds, which scudded across a orange-brown nitrogen-filled sky, at a temperature of —290 °F.

When people back on Earth ask her, NASA Mission Specialist Joan Nyberg will tell them that for the five days she was here—or what would have been five days, if Saturn’s largest moon wasn’t tidally locked and they hadn’t landed on its permanently Saturn-facing side—the weather was mostly just methane rain continually falling in surreal slow motion from yellow clouds, which scudded across a orange-brown nitrogen-filled sky, at a temperature of —290 °F.

When people back on Earth ask her, NASA Mission Specialist Joan Nyberg will tell them that for the five days she was here—or what would have been five days, if Saturn’s largest moon wasn’t tidally locked and they hadn’t landed on its permanently Saturn-facing side—the weather was mostly just methane rain continually falling in surreal slow motion from yellow clouds, which scudded across a orange-brown nitrogen-filled sky, at a temperature of —290 °F.