Stories

Kin Lane

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 →