warren ellis
The Inexorable Rise of the Crapjects
There is a world to come where Google Glasses will exist as a popular game platform. These will turn out to be just popular enough to ensure that Google Glass never gets to be useful and will never be able to give you a good look at the real world.
My Bloody Valentine, Bowie, and the URL of Things to Come
A few weeks back I received an email from a friend that went something like "My dad's got a new record out today, and he could really use your support to help get the word out." I get emails like that quite often. The difference here was that this...
I'm Sick of Waiting for Space Travel, Give Me a Castle on Mars
There may well be microbial life forms on Mars, yes. We may be polluting a pristine alien environment. But I say that, if they're there, let them fight for it. Let them go to war with the mighty water bears of Earth. I don't care any more. Space...
I Can Fix Gun Control in America with Drones
I propose the banning in America of all firearms except those attached to a drone. I'm not infringing the American right to bear arms. I am qualifying it. Because the only thing that stops a bad guy with a drone is a good guy with a drone.
The Inevitable Crapness of 2013
The Internet of Things is something that people will be seriously looking at in 2013. On one hand, it's a wonderful idea but it could also create a class of desperate entrepreneurs born of austerity and sociopolitical upheaval.
The Acceptable Cost of the Right to Bear Arms
The main weapon used at Newtown was an assault rifle preferred by special forces teams. Now, I’m not an expert. I’m British. But I’m thinking that 20 to 30 semi-automatic .233 rounds through a carbine with a built-in flash suppressor is probably...
How to Shut Down Internets
After shutting the internet down, most megalomaniac dictators believe they will still be around to turn it back on. They take their future for granted, and believe they only need to hide the corpses it will be built on.
An Idiot's Guide to Time
We live in a world where time only flows downstream and the past is an unscalable glacier wall. We will hit the bottom of the spiral long before we ever solve the problem of rescuing love or speaking unsaid goodbyes.
Delete Everything Now
We give up our privacy, as they say, for candy bars. The problem is that the thing we give our information to today is not necessarily the thing that will have it tomorrow.
Sandy and the Broken Machine
Global warming isn't a joke or a trick, it's the new future, a thousand miles wide and coming for us at a hundred miles an hour.
My Last Column About the Presidential Election (Really)
You may gather that I don't consider the 2012 election itself much of a story, and you'd be right. It'll appear to be tight, but it really won't be. Here's my prediction.
Jimmy Savile and the Price of Silence
Sir Jimmy Savile was a radio DJ, TV personality, and charity worker, raising millions for the children's ward at Stoke Mandeville hospital. He's also a necro-pedo, who did his deeds for years because nobody wanted to pay the price of outing him.