Stories

Kin Lane

Guns Are A Market, And Second Only To Religion Have The Best Marketing Known To Man #DesignFiction

Not many sectors of our economy enjoy constitutional protections, and such a passionate base as the gun. While the firearm is an essential tool and right to life by many individuals, when it comes down to it, it is just another market, with customers to keep, and sales to make. People don't consider guns to be a market, because they s...
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The FlockTender 1000 #DesignFiction

My name is Christopher Longfellow, and I am the pastor of a small church in suburban Chicago, IL. I’m six months into my adoption of the FlockTender 1000, and working to keep better notes on how I’m using, and the amazing changes it has introduced into my church, and how I interact with my parishioners. First, I...
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Tracking Police Vehicle Network #DesignFiction

With the size and cost of GPS trackers it is getting easier and easier to track the locations of vehicles. Commercial fleets are using are using it to manage their workforce, police use them to track their own vehicles as well as increasingly track the location of criminals. I've taken advantage of this low cost te...
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Deliver Weed Via Drones #DesignFiction

Hey my name is creature, I live up on the hill in Portland, OR. I am your local weed dealer. I've started a new drone delivery service in the PDX area. I can deliver up to an ounce of weed 12 PM to 12AM, seven days a week. Just visit pdxdronedelivery.com and there is an account setup and ordering system available there.
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Pushing Drone Technology Forward With Drone Hunters #DesignFiction

As the usage of domestic, commercial usage of drones expands in the United States, the drone manufacturing industry in partnership with the federal government is looking for ways to improve their technology. We are seeing a new pilot program emerge in the remote outback of Colorado in the small town of Deer Trail. Fueled by a sing...
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US Fully Into All Areas of Philippines Within 24 Hours of Typhoon Hitting #DesignFiction

Photo Credit The United States Military Forces were on the ground within 24 h...
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Me And My Army Of Enthusiastic ObamaCare Registrants #DesignFiction

I'm sitting back in the bahamas enjoying the fruits of my labor, with $1M in my bank account, dedicated Internet to my bungalow and as much rum as I can drink. After 7 months of work, I'm enjoying the fruits of my labor to help make sure the launch of ObamaCare is a wild failure. I was approached back in March, by a gentleman who wil...
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My Name Is Frank And I Work At CQI Cloud Providers #DesignFiction

My name is Frank Ascapone. I am director of operations at CQI cloud providers. We provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) level cloud services for companies around the world. This week in Washington D.C. there is a major battle within the federal government about whether to fund the g...
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My Local Storage Node Uses a Disposable Proxy to Connect To The Cloud #DesignFiction

We have evolved and matured beyond our early days of cloud computing. We ended up thinking that the cloud was a necessary evil, but it wasn't the early love affair with storing our lives online. Today I have my own local storage nodes, where I store my photos, music, video and even my DNA sequencing. My nodes are stored on my body, in my h...
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I Am Still Not Convinced Any Of This Is Real! #DesignFiction

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I Had Left Part of Me At Diamond Creek #DesignFiction

It was 1997 and I had just recovered from getting busted by the FBI. I needed to get away, take inventory of who the fuck I was, and where this ship was headed. What better place to do it than Diamond Creek! Diamond Creek is an sparkling, pure body of water that flows through some of the most desolate, hard landscape you c...
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The Quantified Developer #DesignFiction

I am the CEO of Connected World Software, which produces software that runs around the globe, present in every phone, tablet, automobile and any other connected object that you depend. At Connected World Software we have managed to become the number one software provider in the world through a network of what we call, Quantif...
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The Instagram Photo Sousveillance Network #DesignFiction

I'm a officer for the Department of Homeland Security, stationed in the beach town of Santa Monica, CA. I am an investigator on various domestic terrorism cases, and spend my time investigating individuals who operate in Santa Monica and nearby area. With the proximity to LAX, I find myself tracking on many regulars, as well...
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Announcing Each Revolution of the Machine #DesignFiction

If you are using the word "revolution" and it is not "a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time", you are just announcing each revolution of the gear, from within the machine that has consumed you.
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The Push Notification Says I Have 15 Minutes Until the Drone Arrives #DesignFiction

Its been 8 years since since I was released from jail, after being charged with wire fraud and computer fraud, for liberating real estate data. At the time, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) was stepping up prosecution of “scrapers” who were repurposing home listings from the national websites. I felt compelled to do something, which w...
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Perils of Being a Mechanical Elf and Chronically Grinding Against the Machine #DesignFiction

A mechanical elf is an entity that lives in the cosmic space in between our reality, time and space. Mechanical doesn’t quite describe the work these “elves” do, but neither does the description of “elf”--we lack adequate descriptions in this world. Mechanical elves are the workers who oversee the operations of everything tha...
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Top Technology Blogs Lose 50 Percent of Readers Due to Innacurate Reporting #DesignFiction

For about six years now, technology blogs like TechCrunch ad Mashable have been the go-to-place, to find the most up to date information that comes out of Silicon Valley and the technology world. After many high profile acqusitions of these tech blogs, and the daily pressures of "churnalism", thes...
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Are All of Our Memories Real? #DesignFiction

p>My 10 year old daughter Kaia and I were chatting last night about a old family friend that is coming to visit. She hasn’t seen him since she was three years old. He showed up to the house, and she got back on chat and told me she doesn’t remember him at all. She described what he looked like, and said she doesn’t know him. I went to my Flickr account ...
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What Really Caused the Amazon Web Services Outage? #DesignFiction

Amazon released a summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS service disruption in the US East Region today. These so caled “stuck” volumes and stuck EC2 instances, well those were mine. Right after midnight on April 21st I was working on one of my harvest tools, which pul...
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Telehash Node Runners in Egypt #DesignFiction

I’m learning more about distributed technologies like TeleHash and Kademlia and matching with other wireless infrastructure knowledge I have. Telling in fictional stories helps me apply and understand in my brain. Here is one story from Egypt. Read more →