What does the future of hosting look like?

“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...

In 2018, ex-AWS employee Paul Johnston and I jointly published a report on the state of energy use in the cloud. How could we as consumers make ethical and future-proof choices about hosting?