Stories

Kin Lane

DreamWorkers - Outsourcing Your Common Tasks To Other Peoples Dreams #APIDesignFiction

Through advancements in API definition and deployment technology, we now have the ability to pass basic ideas, concepts, and even tasks to people in their sleep. Here at DreamWorkers LLC, our core group of professionally trained dream workers have volunteered their sleep time, to get the work done that you need each day. Using our cloud...
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Software Defined Deprecation That Is In Real-Time Sync With Our Marketing And Sales #APIDesignFiction

In the past, keeping our deprecation strategies in sync with our overall product sales and marketing took a full time staff, but in 2019, we now have an automated, API driven software defined deprecation strategy that is in perfect sync, in real-time with our sales and marketing. In the past, we could only flick a switch, when we started marketing a new device, that wou...
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How We Use The Standard Black Box API For Drone Enforcement #APIDesignFiction

My name is Dirk Alan, I’m an official black box drone inspector for the FAA. I based in Los Angeles, in charge of monitoring the region for drone activivity from Long Beach up to Mailbu. If a drone comes down, is detained, or for any other reasons ends up in custody, I’m called in to retrieve it and figure out what fines need to levera...
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Adding Text Recognition To The Next Generation Of Our Paper Smart Cups #DesignFiction

We just released version 7.3 of our mart coffee cups, paper edition. The paper cups we sell to mainstream coffee shops, is over 83% of our business, enjoying the business of customers like Starbucks, Peets, and many more of the top brands in coffee. We provide all the cups, as well as all the business intelligence that goes with it, to almost...
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Apple Watch #DesignFiction

The beauty in the Apple Watch program is its been in use for years, and now that we’ve called our recent device an Apple Watch you think it is new. We’ve been watching you for years, and now that we are talking about it publicly, you are even more excited than we could ever imagine. We are watching you. We...
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Kinich Janaab Pakal #DesignFiction

We are all traveling through space to our death. In this life I am lucky enough to be an architect of a space that is connecting the heavens with earth. If done right, death is only the doorway to a new space, a new way navigating through this space that transends individual lives. This is not a singularity, but simply an elimination of the space in between so you can see things for what they are. Read more →
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Introducing You To The Universal Privilege API

After signing a brand new deal with Google, we feel confident that now is the time to introduce you to our new Universal Privilege API®. With partners including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo, and many others, the Universal Privilege API® now provides you with the access you will n...
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Adding A New Type of Uber Drones To The Stack #DesignFiction

The response to our Uber camera drones has been so popular that we are launching an entirely new type of drone, a new delivery drone. We were impressed with the ability of our users in navigating the new world of camera drones on demand, and excited to see thousands of drones being deployed every hour in the name of real esta...
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Updating My WalkSensor Monitoring Network Profile For The Month #DesignFiction

I am updating my WalkSensor profile for the month. I like to take a look at my profile each month, stay up to date on the providers that I contribute data to, and consider any possible new additions to my profile. Right now I gather data for 28 separate companies, organizations, and the city of Portland, OR where I live. When I walk to work eac...
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A New Monetization Opportunity Through Predictive Insurance Policies #DesignFiction

Hey Jacob, This is mean to augment our conversation on the golf course yesterday, and solidify our commitment to this new monetization opportunity. I would say that the opportunity around predictive insurance policies is our greatest opportunity to date, and is something we need to put in place immediately. Now that our governance...
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Misogyny, Class, Privilege, And Acceptance Of Exploitation Goes Real-Time #DesignFiction

One of the more darker sides of the Internet has gone real-time. Hacker News (HN) which is known for being a extremely valuable source of information on the tech industry, while also being the poster child for misogyny, class, privileg...
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Personalized Enforcement Of Internet Of Things Development Standards #APIDesignFiction

My name is John Davis, I head up the FTCs Internet of Things (IoT) Development Standards Enforcement Group. For over 5 years now I have overseen the design, deployment, enhancement and enforcement of our federal government IoT development standard body. In the years between 2015 and 2020 we have seen a wild west i...
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Riding The Wave of Vending Machine Cuisine #DesignFiction

I got in early. I saw a new thing, that I felt was the future, and I rode the wave in. I started a blog in 2014, called My Vending, which focused the world of vending machine cuisine. It all started with a single vending machine burrito, building on the momentum of ...
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Polish Your Drone Pilot Skills Today #DesignFiction

One of the most sought after skills in the next decade will be the ability to fly drones. The world of drones is opening up, from the technology you use, to new rules by the FAA, and highly skilled folks are needed to fly drones for tasks ranging from security to real estate sales. You may be an expert at playing video games, and played with your home drone kit f...
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Using Facebook Facial Recognition To Find Jesus In Everything #DesignFiction

I was uploading my Earth as Art photos into a Facebook album, as I’m working on new ways to use my social networks in conjunction with image and photo content, and after the upload, I clicked next and Facebook wanted to find my friends in the mountains, water, and other land masses that were present in my photos. This gave me ...
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We Haven't Seen Charles Israel Adams (aka @cia) #DesignFiction

The young man who used to own the Twitter handle @cia hasn’t been see for a couple weeks, and now the Central Intelligence Agency as now taken over control over his Twitter account, formerly owned and ran by Charles Israel Adams. The @cia Twitter account ...
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The Reverse Hearbleed Switch #DesignFiction

We needed a way to get everyone to weaken the SSL they were using, and what better target than OpenSSL, which handles SSL for millions of companies worldwide. Until recently we were not able to infiltrate the OpenSSL team, and with the recent Snowden leaks, we needed to increase the vulnerability of system...
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Technologists Develop New Polymer That Binds And Lubricates At The Same Time #APIDesignFiction

We never thought it was possible, but over the last ten years a new breed of software engineers have organically developed a new technical polymer that both acts as glue, holding together architectural components, while simultaneously acting as a lubricant between not just the technical components, but the business and political ...
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Each Developer Is Responsible For Their Internet Of Things Creation #DesignFiction

Ever since the federal Internet of things (Iot) act went into effect we’ve seen an amazing adoption of enforcement frameworks occur, with about 90% saturation across the industry. Iot enforcement frameworks required identity certificates of all developers who work on code, before any Internet enabled device can operate. T...
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Internet of Things #DesignFiction

Do we even understand what we are doing when we unleash an Internet of Things (Iot)? We think we have them under control and they will do our bidding, but will they? I predict that we will see a lot of destruction, and big messes in the world of Iot before we see any order. At wha...
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Physical Bucket To Amazon S3 Bucket Conversion Service #DesignFiction

I wanted to announce Buckit, which is an online bucket conversion system allowing you to mail items to a specific physical address, that is allocated into various buckets, which are directly mapped to virtual Amazon S3 buckets. Anything you mail into a bucket, will be converted to its virtual equivalent. A patented physical to virtu...
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Wearable Tech For The People You Love The Most #DesignFiction

Technology plays an important role in our lives, allowing us to better connect with the people that are most important to us. We all want to know that the people we love are safe, sound, and close to our hearts. What better way to do this than through Internet connected wearable technology, and mobile apps we can use on our smartphones.
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I Have To Check Your ID When Buying Alcohol Because The Cameras Are Watching #DesignFiction

Standing in the grocery store line, the young man in front of me was purchasing alcohol, and the cashier kindly asked him for his ID. He jokingly said I don’t look over 36? She laughed, and she said no, and “the cameras are watching”. She explained that when the point of sale system scans alcohol it takes ...
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NSA Protest Analysis And Targeting Using Angry Bird Data #DesignFiction

The public recently found out that the NSA uses leaky applications such as Angry Birds to track on and find out more about every day citizens around the world. There is a wealth of data available regarding the potential of Angry Bird users, where they travel to, how they spend their leisure time, and potentially their understandin...
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Internet of Things Crimes: Nest Burglars #APIDesignFiction

The big data generated by the Internet of Things provides a lot of value in everyday life. One example of this is in my career, as a common burglar. I never used to think of myself as a criminal, but as an application developer for Internet of Things devices I saw so much opportunity—I couldn't help myself. In my reg...