Very interesting Washington Post piece about the security of the Internet and the "Internet of things" largely based on Linux, given the eccentricities of Linux' founder and the incentives that don't operate when people are giving stuff away rather than selling it. Read that alongside Ted Koppel's piece (in Thursday's National Post among other places) about the vulnerability of America's power infrastructure (and ours, I assure you) and you might well conclude with Woody that "This is the perfect time to panic."

But don't worry if you miss it. You'll get another chance.

In my latest Rebel video I reminisce about very ancient computers and this cool thing that allowed computers to talk to one another. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PKV8s3K6tc

My Windows 10 download and install was a genuinely amazing experience. So if technology is going to bring us true fulfillment, why aren't we happier?

In my latest National Post column I argue that Asteroid Day is one trendy cause worth embracing... while we still can.

In my latest National Post column, I tell the government waiter I didn't order this patronizing rubbish.

My latest National Post column criticizes the obsession with solving mankind's problems, in this case poverty, with advanced mathematics, as though humans were things not people.

My new podcast "Reality University" is now available. It offers a weekly look at the big questions that affect our common life and the key ideas (and books) that help us understand the world around us. Please drop by and audit a few classes and consider signing up. Because as Philip K. Dick once said, "Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away."

In my latest National Post column I criticize the notion that we can find the answers to moral questions in a math textbook.