Reads tagged with “technology”

How Remix Culture Fuels Creativity & Invention: Kirby Ferguson at TED

From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, or how copyright law came to hinder the very thing it set out to protect.

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Aldous Huxley on Freedom, Propaganda, and the Future of Technology: A Rare and Prophetic 1958 Interview by Mike Wallace

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

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Trinity: A Graphic History of the Atomic Bomb

From Marie Curie to Hiroshima, or what uranium isotopes have to do with moral philosophy.

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The New Swiss Army Knife: Bill Gates Predicts the iPhone in 1995

What Siri and the appification of faxing have to do with the difference between envisioning and enacting.

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Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution

“In every human culture, the hand and the brain work together to create the style that makes a civilization.”

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The Calendar as a Meme: A Brief History of Timekeeping

“To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.”

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Close to the Machine: Code and the Mesmerism of Building a World from Scratch

“…the programmer has no choice but to retreat into some private interior space, closer to the machine…”

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How a Bicycle Is Made

All you ever wondered about how handlebars are bent, why mudguards exist, and where lubricant comes from.

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100 Ideas That Changed Architecture

How the art and science of building evolved along the parallel axes of the philosophical and the pragmatic.

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Powershift: Alvin Toffler Visionary Wisdom on the Age of Post-Fact Knowledge and the Super-Symbolic Economy

“We are interrelating data in more ways, giving them context, and thus forming them into information; and we are assembling chunks of information into larger and larger models and architectures of knowledge.”

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Reads tagged with “technology”

From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, or how copyright law came to hinder the very thing it set out to protect.

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

From Marie Curie to Hiroshima, or what uranium isotopes have to do with moral philosophy.

What Siri and the appification of faxing have to do with the difference between envisioning and enacting.

“In every human culture, the hand and the brain work together to create the style that makes a civilization.”

“To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.”

“…the programmer has no choice but to retreat into some private interior space, closer to the machine…”

All you ever wondered about how handlebars are bent, why mudguards exist, and where lubricant comes from.

How the art and science of building evolved along the parallel axes of the philosophical and the pragmatic.

“We are interrelating data in more ways, giving them context, and thus forming them into information; and we are assembling chunks of information into larger and larger models and architectures of knowledge.”

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