When money has no value any more, why would anyone try to counterfeit it? The answer is, there’s lots of different definitions of value . . . Did you hear about the time money almost destroyed the world? No, not capitalism. My granddad used to go on about the Big Crash for hours if you’d […]
So, I wrote a PhD, and guess what? It was on matter transmitters. I found out the day I left for England that it had been accepted. Here’s the intro, which goes some way towards outlining why I think d-mat is so cool. Warning: it’s pretty dry! I have added a lolcat chaser, but even […]
This is an urban myth from the very early days of d-mat. You can listen to me reading this here or here, or download the recording here. My grandfather has this story from when he was young–ten, fifteen, I don’t know. Back then you had to carry a card to use d-mat. The booth recognized […]
It has begun! Sean from Adventures of a Bookonaut interviewed me about matter transmission and Twinmaker: Jump: “Any device that can scan your every atom and rebuild you at will leads inevitably to the possibilities of copying, mutation and erasure, all of which put severe pressure on our sense of self. If you can change […]