At AWS re:Invent in late November 2021, something surprisingly pleasing and yet completely inevitable happened. AWS added sustainability to the well-architected pillars that define their “key concepts...

We all learned during the first two weeks of November that coming to an agreement on climate issues is far from easy - everyone has their own opinion on the right and wrong way to go about things.

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“If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.” - Herb Stein’s Law

“When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

It was sci-fi author William Gibson who first pointed out that the future is already here, it just isn’t evenly distributed. That comment applies particularly to privacy, surveillance, and trust. Righ...

In January 2020, a radical public-health intervention was introduced to the world: the lockdown.  Before China wheeled it out, it had never been used at any great scale outside Hollywood. No one belie...

'If they would rather die', said Scrooge, ‘'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population’.

What’s the best way to change the world? Two researchers published a book in 2011 on the history of conflict that took up that very question. Their book Why Civil Resistance Works pointed out a surpri...