Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Government bureaucracies have a long and richly deserved reputation for squelching innovation, but they possess four key elements that may allow them to benefit from the innovation engine of an emergent platform. First, they are repositories of a vast amount of information and services that could be of potential value to ordinary people, if only we
... See moreSteven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
The new computer was assigned two problems: how to destroy life as we know it, and how to create life of unknown forms.
George Dyson • Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
jail. No matter how advanced our technology may be, in other words, we can never escape from the normative and political task of deciding how to use it.
Jascha Franklin-Hodge • The Smart Enough City
and locked up huge quantities of useful material in them, so that when new architectures replaced old, the data became inaccessible.
Charles Stross • Glasshouse
The learning lesson for us all in these debates is this: the writer of digital code establishes the rules of user access to information.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
AT&T’s savior was Theodore Vail, who became its president in 1907, just a few years after Millikan’s friend Frank Jewett joined the company.11 In appearance, Vail seemed almost a caricature of a Gilded Age executive: Rotund and jowly, with a white walrus mustache, round spectacles, and a sweep of silver hair, he carried forth a magisterial conf
... See moreJon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Jay Parkinson • Toward a New Definition of Primary Care: Primary care 3.0
Mervin Kelly, Jim Fisk, William Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and William Baker.