Johnny is a walking hard drive: a courier-cum-USB-stick. Anxious clients pay to stash data in his head. He has no access to the data; the right password, spoken aloud, triggers “idiot/savant” mode—and gets him talking. One day, Johnny discovers there’s … Read more
1. We here at Code Mesh 2013 in London and I am sitting here with Will Byrd. Will, who are you? My name is Will. I am a programmer. I have a long history of programming in Scheme … Read more
[embedded content][embedded content] “What’s the one thing that all great works of science fiction have in common?” asks a 1997 episode of The Net, the BBC’s television series about the possibilities of this much-talked-about new thing called the internet. “They all … Read more