fun facts
How to “wire” a photo in 1937.
A nine minute video explaining the technology that allowed newspapers to publish and distribute photos nearly real-time. ~ learn more
Tag: technology
big ideas
Palmer Luckey makes his point.
“How far might we be if supposedly learned elites didn’t use the power of words to attack the power of technologist-driven technology?” ~ learn more
retail therapy
The future 100: 2024 edition.
“Be future-ready and dive into 100 micro trends spanning culture creativity and connection. Join us as we take you on a journey into tomorrow’s world; a world where in the face of a bewildering amount of new technology, people are […]
big ideas
How to decarbonize 85% of all industry using today’s technology.
I have not fact-checked this but it did make it through some sort of peer-review. “In a new study published in the journal Joule, the researchers went through a range of different industrial sectors looking at the available options for decarbonization, […]
big ideas
Decarbonization 2024.
Nat Bullard is a self-described expert on clean energy and climate finance. He puts together this annual presentation on “the state of decarbonization told with climate, capital markets, technology, and sector data.” It’s very detailed and full of interesting data. […]
tech, startups, internet
AI and the big five.
To Stratechery’s Ben Thompson, “it seems clear … that this is a new epoch in technology.” So how might the giant tech companies of the last decade play a role in this new epoch? The premise here is that, “some […]
big ideas
The rise and decline of thinking over feeling.
“In texts, … thinking words relating to technology and social organization (experiment, gravity, weigh, cost, contract) become more common between 1850 and approximately 1977 (beginning of the great stagnation) but since then thinking words have declined markedly and feeling words […]
to your health
mRNA vaccine technology moves to flu.
This is still only the beginning. “Moderna has given out the first doses of an mRNA-based influenza vaccine to participants in an early-phase clinical trial, the company announced Wednesday.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
10 life science startups to watch
“Early-stage companies advance precision medicine by applying AI, clinical genomics, and other new technologies.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Tech and the new normal
From Ben Evans: “This June, I updated my macro trends deck, with a condensed version of where we were in January and some thoughts on where we are in June: forced experimentation and years of progress in weeks.” | learn more