Pages Tagged “Technology”
Reviews
- Soonish
★★★★★
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
Fascinating, accessible, funny, and still relevant overview of cutting-edge tech, even though it took me 7 years to get around to reading it. - You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
★★★★★
Janelle Shane
A fun, accessible introduction to how artificial intelligence works…and how it sometimes doesn’t!
Blog Posts
- Low-Tech/High Tech B&N
I stopped frequenting Barnes & Noble a while back because they were so determined to sell you a Nook and get you out of the store, never to return. (That, and for a while we had a great indie bookstore nearby.) Now they’re selling vinyl records. And holding events. They’re doing Throwback Thursdays and a […]
- Overloaded Cell Network? Send a Text
BoingBoing explains why SMS messages are more likely to get through than phone calls or mobile data during a large emergency. (Short version: They’re async, so the phone or tower can retry later, and they’re momentary, so they don’t tie up a channel like a call would.) The article doesn’t bring it up, but I’d […]
- Cassette…Now I Remember
I tried to explain what an audio cassette was to a two-year-old. It turned out to be trickier to demonstrate than I expected.
- False Choices, Free Culture and Music.
It’s not just “pay for everything in this manner” vs. “take what you want.” Tech has transformed media distribution, so we need new compensation models.
- Last Days of the Floppy Disk
The last days of the floppy diskette are approaching: Sony will stop selling them in Japan next year. No word on how long they’ll continue selling them in the US…but when was the last time you saw a new computer with a floppy disk drive?
- Obsolete
I found this 3.5″ floppy disk on the ground while exploring a section of disused railroad track running through an industrial park. Update (December 2010): These tracks have since been ripped out and paved over with concrete as a pedestrian walkway to the Tustin Metrolink station.