Alex Dobrenko

This technology that currently (and increasingly) siloes us doesn’t have to. Perhaps there could be more funding for those innovations that have to do with shared, rather than unshared experiences. Or perhaps there could even be computational work done by new companies or institutions to produce technology which helps us reunite and share... See more

And so we do. But our notebooks give us away, for however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable “I.” We are not talk ing here about the kind of notebook that is patently for public consump tion, a structural conceit for binding together a series of... See more

the Curta hit the world market in 1949 selling for US$125 through mail order and in a handful of specialty shops. It was a lot of money in those days, but the Curta was still a hit with engineers, traveling accountants, pilots, and even rally drivers. In the end, 150,000 of them were built in two models over the course of 20 years. It also gained a... See more