The Geecologist

Datacide

Datacide

Dec 31, 2014 | Featured, Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Borrowed from Douglas Haddow’s piece DATAcide: The Total Annihilation of Life as We Know It in Adbusters. I’m here, bringing the cold beer to my dry lips and bobbing my head in my best impersonation of someone who doesn’t feel ill when he hears the words “key...
Mockingbird

Mockingbird

Oct 7, 2014 | Fiction | 0 comments

I stretched myself in the chair and yawned. Then I said, “What happened to conversations? Why don’t people talk anymore, Bob?” He looked at me. “Yes,” he said, as though he had been thinking about the same thing himself. “When I was newly made, back in Cleveland,...
The Circle

The Circle

Jun 25, 2014 | Fiction, Geekery | 0 comments

“For example, when you heard your dad had a seizure, you drove, what, a hundred miles or so, and never once during that drive did you try to glean any information from the InnerCirclers, or from the larger OuterCircle. Do you see that as an opportunity wasted?” “Now I...
Identity

Identity

Dec 20, 2006 | Fiction | 0 comments

…in a world where our every move is monitored and recorded, where in department stores cameras watch you, where people constantly jostle you, where a person cannot even make love without being quizzed the next day by researchers and polltakers (where you make...