Where’s My Flying Car? by Michael E. Duffy· July 14, 2022 6:30 pm·During the 1960s, everyone seemed to think that by 2022, we’d all have flying cars, just like the Jetsons, though,…
How The World Really Works by Michael E. Duffy· June 1, 2022 3:42 pm·In real life, I work as a mobile game programmer. I joined the team that’s building Kingdom Maker in May…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…