Columns · Cyber Warfare by Michael E. Duffy· May 10, 2022 4:44 pm·Last night we watched The Imitation Game, a fictionalized account of the British compromise of the Nazi Enigma code machine,…
Columns · Can Software be Trusted? by Michael E. Duffy· April 1, 2022 2:57 pm·I saw this meme on Facebook: “I work in IT, which is the reason our house has mechanical locks, mechanical…
Columns · Web3 and a New Technology-Based Gold Rush by Michael E. Duffy· March 1, 2022 3:32 pm·First, there were Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Now, following the natural order of things, we have web3 (as it…
Columns · Electrical Dreams by Michael E. Duffy· January 31, 2022 6:40 pm·The future is electric—that much is clear. Burning fossil fuels for electric generation, heating and transportation cannot continue if humanity,…
Columns · Fusion Futures by Michael E. Duffy· January 5, 2022 1:43 pm·My last column was pretty grim. As I see it, there is almost no chance that we—as both a nation…
Columns · We’ll Always Have Paris, Won’t We? by Michael E. Duffy· December 2, 2021 1:27 pm·One of the major stumbling blocks to coping with climate change is that all the countries on the planet must…
Columns · Useful Bits by Michael E. Duffy· November 8, 2021 3:15 pm·Lots going on in tech right now: Facebook had an hours-long outage. Elizabeth Holmes, former CEO of blood-testing startup Theranos…
Columns · The Metaverse is Coming (Slowly) by Michael E. Duffy· October 12, 2021 1:53 pm·The word “metaverse” first appeared nearly 30 years ago in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel, Snow Crash. It was used to…
Columns · Is This the End of Targeted Digital Ads? by Michael E. Duffy· September 3, 2021 6:42 pm·Apple started a quiet tsunami with the release of iOS 14.5 (the software that runs iPhones and iPads), which revolves…
Columns · Atlas Quarantined by Michael E. Duffy· August 9, 2021 2:10 pm·Anyone who ever read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged knows John Galt is “the man who stopped the motor of the…