He popularised the term "metacrap" by a 2001 essay titled "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia." Some of his non-fiction published between 2001 and 2007 has been collected by Tachyon Publications as "Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future". In 2016 he wrote the article "Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood-Hacker" (published on MIT Technology Review) as a review of the TV show Mr. Robot and argued for a better portrayal and understanding of technology, computers and their risks and consequences in our modern world.