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
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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
Steve Blank: The Secret History of Silicon Valley
Recommended – accompanied by slides and just-as-interesting information about Steve Blank’s involvement at his website here.
Technology (2): Artifice-ial Beings
… 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
Marc Andreessen: product vs business
We don’t believe there’s a tension between product and business, we believe there’s a staging, which is in this [the tech] industry you don’t have… Read More »Marc Andreessen: product vs business
Technology (1): Second Nature
My working definition of technology is:Â 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
Trilogy: Books as Network
I’ve just finished reading Nicholas Monsarrat’s The Cruel Sea. It’s one of the best war novels I’ve read, and served as the final book in… Read More »Trilogy: Books as Network
Marc Andreessen on the secret of Netscape’s success (c.1995)
Netscape’s secret is that we’re in the middle of an exploding market. Marc Andreessen It’s as simple and as difficult as that.* *In one sense,… Read More »Marc Andreessen on the secret of Netscape’s success (c.1995)
“Dogs that do not bark”: Gwern Branwen on unseen progress since the 1990s
Progress is usually debated in terms of the big things like lifting the Third World out of poverty, eliminating child mortality, or science & tech:… Read More »“Dogs that do not bark”: Gwern Branwen on unseen progress since the 1990s
Links from Patrick Collison on air pollution and cognition and (so) GDP
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