Science fiction author and technology blogger.
You can do a lot of things with carbon atoms. Sixty of them can be arranged in a hollow sphere called fullerene. Arrange them in a sheet with the thickness of a single atom to create graphene, or line them up in a chain to form carbyne. You can even make atomic-scale cylinders called carbon … Read more
A few miles north of Alliance Nebraska, an occasional silo sprouts from the quilt of corn and soybean fields. It seems plausible that we might drive for hours and see nothing else. Maybe Carhenge doesn’t really exist. It’s urban legend, a consensual hallucination with no basis in reality. Then, there it is, writhing within the … Read more
The days run away like wild horses over the hills, according to Charles Bukowski, and that’s my only excuse for not blogging more about technology. But the news that a company is curing blindness with sci-fi tech straight out of Star Trek compelled me to blog. In a 2011 TED talk, Dr. Sheila Nirenberg described … Read more
After extensive thought and consideration of my inaugural blog, I’ve decided to describe how I set up this website. I know. Bore me to death! Okay, here we go. I went with WordPress. I did not, however, use wordpress.com. With paulmartz.com already hosted on my Debian 7 Linux system, installing WordPress locally made more sense … Read more