Posts tagged “speculative technology

Pilots, part 7Sep 3, 2009

Space got wild fast after orbital launch costs collapsed. After we found Max, a teenage Tibetan monk who'd accidentally killed his entire village with an uncontrolled switch, we nursed him through years of rehab. Then we handed him back to training, and he went straight into orbit on his first try.

Pilots, part 4Aug 20, 2009

I walked you through how Switch Transport went from just me to a whole industry: how we figured out switching's quirks (distance, presence, pushback), how VC brilliantly built Recruitment, launched canyouswitch.com, and found our second pilot, Maddie, whose utterly undramatic five-minute video convinced me she was the real thing.