On Multiplicity / Sobre la Multiplicidad
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Airborne Secrets
On her first night on Zep #9511-h Debugger Lin dreamed herself doing something so obscenely outside the...
Centripetal
A lesser detective would have looked for Anna in theaters, laboratories, and morgues, as she had been a...
Black Zone Dreams
American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain...
Inheritance
The soldier knelt on the chapel waiting for her father's armor to finish booting. She had already slaved the...
Sede Vacante
Preoccupied with the box sitting next to him on the backseat, it took a second for the Cardinal to remember...
Boundary Point
There was a diversity of views regarding the War's beginning, sides, fronts, status, and aims. Even what...
The Elsinore Fugue
The Ghost flees dawn: for the King there's no noontime. Hamlet kills himself in his cell when he hears of the...
Burial Place
It was raining the night the poet set foot on the island whence the last of the Freedom Cities had sent its...
The Intercalary Gambit
She constructed her nightmares like a chess opening. With chemistry, engineering, psychology, and pain...
If Old Acquaintance Be Forgot
The room was empty except for a table and two chairs. The Colonel sat on one and on the other the man who had...
Longevity tech: in a bad place, with good options
The current state of the longevity industry is both worse and better than what the public narrative...
The Nostradamus Fixpoint
The ancient text file changed daily in the air gapped system where the only thing that ran was a primitive...
Graveyard
The last thing ever said on the Moon was a god's corpse mathematically perfect narration of the Thanatos...
My Soul to Keep
You're an angel watching a sleeping child. Your vision into his brain is limited to a young...
Spectral
There is a man who has the same nightmare every morning when he can no longer stay awake: he dreams of the color...
Odds and Ends
Professional expertise on the psychology of the gambling addict had not kept Adam safe from becoming one...
POV
Most people say the City watches us all the time: on the streets, at work, in the shower, while we sleep. Most...
Industrial Secrets
Everybody has heard of the Dreadnought Factories deep inside the country from where impossible devices...
Ablative
Somebody gave you a knife and stood back smiling as you cut away parts of yourself. Those aren't the right...
The Patron Saint of Clues
Not every murder. Those who know something do not know enough to guess how many or what they have in common. It...
Already Disruptive: Journalism is a high-margin research technology, not a zero-margin content mill
Part of the crisis in journalism is one of image and self-image. Mapping and clarifying what journalism ...
The Quiet Choir
The first breakthrough from superhuman AI mathematics was the discovery in 2039 of a meta-statistical...
The Emergent Artifact 12 Heist
It took the best thief in the world five months to steal Emergent Artifact 12 from where a terrified...
Making Investing Fit for a Sci-Fi World
An underestimated but fundamental fact in financial markets is the huge and mostly unmet demand for...
The Net Sum of Love
Jules' heart was such that he loved all ecosystems. All that was nature, he loved. But it is the nature of love...
Children Insurance
Lloyd's wasn't in London: where Lloyd's was, so was the city. Rhizomatic and infertile, neither deigned to...
Interference Pattern
Alice was sure within the first hour of meeting Bob that their families had software-entangled them since...
The Mathematics of Change
Nobody knew how she had bought the thin forest of bell towers that pinned down the old city's neighborhoods;...
Runaway Geodesics
Her brother moved with a perfection that made her skin crawl. It was not the gracefulness of the dancer whose...
The Human Bottleneck
The debate about human obsolescence has gotten it all wrong: by focusing myopically into individual...
Citadel
He used to understand guilt the way a farmer understands crops. Now he has to use drugs to sleep and drugs to...
Acts of War
The Fractal War did not spare the City. There were no bombs in the featureless black streets cruised by...
Hacking the Hackathon
At their best, internal hackathons provide a necessary patch to systemic problems. But their usual...
Seaside Whispers
She had been a soldier, she had been tortured, and she was in hiding: that was the full extent of what the...
Against Developer Productivity
Developer productivity is not a bad thing – but low developer productivity is not what's holding you back. ...
Breaking the Smart City Out of its Narcissism
Where's the Smart City? Still everywhere as a concept, almost nowhere as transformative large-scale...
The Final Summation
The Detective sat comfortably inside the transparent cage as if it were another well-appointed library...
Affinity
For ten years I assaulted the white-and-red walls of their immune systems (we both had governments, spies,...
The Post-AI Organization
"Post-AI" doesn't mean "no-AI." It means ready to outcompete an AI-first world . A...
The ECHELON Lacuna
There's a human-shaped hole in the secret memory of the world. Somebody who walks without footprints and...
Accretion
"A black hole in his soul?" "A self-reinforcing memetic attractor, if you prefer. Plot it in...
The Burning Church
The church we finished building three months ago is screeching curses pleads and bribe offers to the drones...
Invisible Art
The best-known art forgers are driven by ego; the best, period, aren't known. She was possibly — who could...
The Book of All Names (repost)
At night the darkness abandons him. There is neither blindness nor mercy in the nightmares of Jorge Luis...
Progression
There's something about the future you're afraid to remember. It's about your body. (You can't feel your...
After the Bubble, the Dream Gap
The end of the AI bubble won't mean the technology will go away. As the financial...
Ever-fixed
"Every lie," she said, seeming to look far away from the phone camera, "is on itself a crime." I asked the bot...
The file on your local drive is the ultimate integration API
Most of what I wanted to say is in the title. An online platform is a company in...
Collateral Dreams
We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger...