Inappropriate
A list of some things that have been appropriated by some cultures from others Writing. Roman letters. Arabic numerals. The number zero. The horse (by… Read More »Inappropriate
technology
The History of Animation: Stop-motion in the 21st Century at Aardman
See also: Animation History: The Surprising History of Mickey MouseAlan Becker: Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston’s 12 Principles of Animation (and a bit of the… Read More »The History of Animation: Stop-motion in the 21st Century at Aardman
Eye on AI: Ice Ice Matrix; ABBAtars
You may be convinced we somehow assembled the original cast of The Matrix along side the ghost of Wilford Brimley to record one of the… Read More »Eye on AI: Ice Ice Matrix; ABBAtars
Brad DeLong on Proudhon, property and coercion, and the Royal Society’s cornucopia
Back before 1870, there’s no possibility at all that humanity is going to be able to bake the economic pie sufficiently large that everyone can… Read More »Brad DeLong on Proudhon, property and coercion, and the Royal Society’s cornucopia
Brad DeLong on technological growth and economic change 1870-2010
This excerpt is from DeLong’s interview on Conversations with Tyler. It’s a great discussion – highly recommended. COWEN: If we’re trying to think about the… Read More »Brad DeLong on technological growth and economic change 1870-2010
Not long ago; or, Little by little (9): Car ownership in China 1999-2019
The proponents of this unrealistic scenario [of reduction in global demand for goods] allow merely a factor-of-two increase across all modes of mobility during the… Read More »Not long ago; or, Little by little (9): Car ownership in China 1999-2019
Eye on AI: ChatGPT and Me
You too can experiment with ChatGPT at https://chat.openai.com This is post is pretty long, so I’m putting the “See Also” links here: DriverlessCroc AI fun:The… Read More »Eye on AI: ChatGPT and Me
Technology (26): Vaclav Smil on available energy per capita since 1800
… the 20th century saw a nearly 40-fold gain in useful energy [i.e. energy available for human use]; since 1800 the gain was about 3,500-fold.… Read More »Technology (26): Vaclav Smil on available energy per capita since 1800
Technology (25): Vaclav Smil on prime movers and extrasomatic energy
Extrasomatic: outside of the body About 10 millennia ago… the first patches of deliberately cultivated plants as a small share of the Earth’s total photosynthesis… Read More »Technology (25): Vaclav Smil on prime movers and extrasomatic energy
Technology (24): Keynes on The Permanent Problem; or, The Dread of Abundance
Hattip: Brink Lindsey Let us, for the sake of argument, suppose that a hundred years hence we are all of us, on the average, eight… Read More »Technology (24): Keynes on The Permanent Problem; or, The Dread of Abundance