Technology (18): Self. Sufficiency.
With just: A tract of fertile land; some bales of hay; a few square meters of glass; a few tens of meters of spun copper… Read More »Technology (18): Self. Sufficiency.
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In which we meet an AI
In case you missed it, OpenAI’s GPT3 is now open to the public. In the interests of learning by diving in I’ve signed up and… Read More »In which we meet an AI
Technology (15): Jerry Neumann on technological systems and constellations of innovations
This extract comes from a much longer piece on Jerry Neumann’s blog, Reaction Wheel. Highly recommended. A Technological System is a set of technologies that… Read More »Technology (15): Jerry Neumann on technological systems and constellations of innovations
Writing and Reading as Technology (1): Transforming Fire; Slow Burn
We often think of writing (and reading) as primarily a matter of culture and education, which obscures its position as one of humanity’s most transformative… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (1): Transforming Fire; Slow Burn
Technology (9): The Dream Machine
In short This book – about the origins of the internet – comes highly recommended by lots of people, and is really excellent. Longer I… Read More »Technology (9): The Dream Machine
Microsoft’s first MVP: BASIC for the Altair 8800
How’s this for an MVP? Wikipedia has: Bill Gates was a student at Harvard University and Paul Allen worked for Honeywell in Boston when they saw the Altair computer on the cover of Popular Electronics.… Read More »Microsoft’s first MVP: BASIC for the Altair 8800
Technology (7): Solow-ng (and thanks for all the fish) – Brynjolfsson, Rock and Syverson on intangibles and the Productivity J-Curve
On the Hook Here’s the promised graph, explained below: Fishing for Complements Robert Solow (1987) pointed out that “a technological revolution, a drastic change in… Read More »Technology (7): Solow-ng (and thanks for all the fish) – Brynjolfsson, Rock and Syverson on intangibles and the Productivity J-Curve
Trees of No; or, Fractal (im)possibilities
What stops good things from happening? I came across this paragraph in The Counter‘s recent article on lab-grown meat: David Humbird, the UC Berkeley-trained chemical… Read More »Trees of No; or, Fractal (im)possibilities
Technology (4): General Purpose Technologies
No one can escape the transforming fire of machines. Kevin Kelly – New Rules for the New Economy Not all technologies are created equal. Most… Read More »Technology (4): General Purpose Technologies
Technology (3): A history of augmentation
A history of augmentation Wikipedia has a nice, roughly chronological list of early technologies. It seems that weapons, cooking and languages were the trio that… Read More »Technology (3): A history of augmentation