CX. There are, moreover, some inventions which render it probable that men may pass and hurry over the most noble discoveries which lie immediately before… Read More »Technology (22): Francis Bacon on Combinatorial Innovation, the Big Three Technologies of the Renaissance, and Pure Science
This is an extract from a much longer article by Dan Wang. His point about the learning-doing feedback loop applies to just about everything, of… Read More »Technology (21): Dan Wang on Technology as Process and Learning by Doing
Software Eats the World means… … that any product or service in any field that can become a software product will become a software product.… Read More »Technology (20): Software Eats the World (again)
This is a crossover post with the Literacy as Technology thread – I’ll weave some of these ideas in there in the coming days. Kevin… Read More »Technology (19): Kevin Kelly on technological transitions as informational revolutions
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.
The Exponential View is usually worth a listen, and this was a really good interview. Here’s a highlight: AZEEM AZHAR: … let’s look at the… Read More »Technology (17): Speeding up the S-Curve – Azeem Azhar and Hau Thai-Tang on the accelerating electrification of automobiles
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
… technology predated our humanness… The strategy of bending the environment to use as if it were part of one’s own body is a half-billion-year-old… Read More »Technology (2): Artifice-ial Beings
My working definition of technology is: anything useful made by a mind. Kevin Kelly – Technology’s Epic Story (TED talk) What technology isn’t Technology isn’t (just)… Read More »Technology (1): Second Nature
Here’s the opener – more on his site. Air pollution is a very big deal. Its adverse effects on numerous health outcomes and general mortality… Read More »Links from Patrick Collison on air pollution and cognition and (so) GDP