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Alex Pasternack

United States

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Contributing Editor at Fast Company

~ still human in the strange loop •writer /editor /producer # presents futures º contributing ed Fast Company ⟴ founding ed Motherboard; cofounder Bandwagon

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  • 4 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Alex Pasternack

    When the state of New York adopted a new whole-of-state approach to cybersecurity a few years ago, encompassing everything from transit to schools to power and water supplies, officials were still reeling from an attack that plunged part of Long Island into the paper-and-fax era of the '90s.

  • 1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Alex Pasternack

    "We've had many, many threats against our nation," President Trump said in the Oval Office in November 2018, as he announced the creation of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

  • 2 months ago | fastcompanyme.com | Alex Pasternack

    Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your position by looking up at the stars. Today, when the Global Positioning System isn’t working—or gets jammed by electronic warfare—drones are learning to do something similar, orienting themselves by looking down at the Earth instead.

  • 2 months ago | fastcompany.com | Alex Pasternack

    Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your position by looking up at the stars. Today, when the Global Positioning System isn’t working—or gets jammed by electronic warfare—drones are learning to do something similar, orienting themselves by looking down at the Earth instead.

  • 2 months ago | fastcompany.com | Alex Pasternack

    The global energy transition has been on an extraordinary tear in recent years, one that even President Donald Trump, with his dismantling of U.S. climate policy, will struggle to reverse. Propelled by record levels of public and private investment, utility-scale solar and wind power accounted for close to 90% of all new energy build-outs in the first nine months of 2024, a nearly 30% surge over 2023. Still, the low carbon, electrified future can’t come quickly enough.

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RT @i_zzzzzz: I’m fine with living in a world where everyone born after 2005 has a computer think their thoughts for them. Lots of creature…