It’s been a busy month, both in the news and in the world. Here’s a few things I’ve almost had time to read.
Nuclear and Disaster
“Almost Everything in Dr. Strangelove Was True,” Eric Schlosser, The New Yorker.
The state of emergency in West Virginia and its long term effects.
The NSA
NSA has a backdoor into your computer and to your iPhone.
I just received (from R. for xmas) and am looking forward to reading Craig Child’s Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth, which I imagine will fit nicely w/ this Wikipedia entry on the far future. The number of catastrophic things that have happened and will happen to the earth really dwarfs most anthropic notions of time, disaster, and crisis.
And on the other side of this spectrum, check out The Long Now Foundation.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 