While working at Xerox, Metcalfe wrote a memo describing a new system, the “Ethernet,” which would enable faster and more reliable communications.
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The internet is making location much less important than it used to be. The current decline in big urban centers is easier seen in that context.
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We must put technology in its place, as with all works of human hands. And, as with all human works, when they become idols, we are called to topple them.
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Longtermism — making decisions based on assumptions about a far distant future where everything might be different — makes no sense.
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SMART Hub’s proposed way out is sharing. A radar operating near 3.1 gigahertz could sense a nearby wireless network, shift to 3.4 gigahertz, and keep its range.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, don’t be so sure that you need a degree in probability theory. Study the situation described.
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Apparently, paid usage of AI models has not risen sufficiently to cover the falling token prices.
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A hint for Microsofty 91: Where might Jimmy the Mooch have found some spare energy?
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Purpose and design in nature were required to produce a universe, star system, and planet amenable to the production of technology.
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The ambitious project never paid its expected dividends. Consumers simply weren’t as interested in these VR headsets as Zuckerberg thought they would be.
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Together, Ducey, Ingraham, and Clark made a robust and compelling case at COSM for education freedom, with Ducey framing it as a matter of fairness.
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Mayne noted that many college students today are more entrepreneurial-minded than in the past. They’re turning their anxiety about the future into productivity.
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Kolitz wraps up his article by stressing how this new type of addiction isn’t so far removed from the more culturally accepted forms of mindless scrolling.
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Relativity Space likes to call itself a “customer-centric rocket company.” When we hear a tag line like that, we know times have changed.
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Hal Philipp’s inventions underpin automatic faucets, door sensors, and the capacitive touchscreens that made the smartphone era possible. In this podcast, he offers a candid field guide to turning ideas into impact. The discussion ranges from startup structure and venture capital to patent warfare, corporate brinkmanship, and the social aftershocks of the iPhone. Philipp is interviewed by Robert J. Marks and Bradley Norris. Engineering education Marks opens with a challenge to engineering education. Universities excel at training graduates for Boeing or Motorola, but seldom spotlight entrepreneurship as a viable path. Philipp agrees and then complicates the picture. If he could rewind, he says, he would “get a little more assistance,” likely allying with a larger organization to gain leverage. In Read More ›
Though no one discusses it directly, while the researchers designed the device to avoid invading privacy, others will doubtless have the opposite intent.
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Most people still don’t take “nature rights” seriously because it is clearly irrational. But that’s a huge mistake. Their cause is accelerating.
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Policy helps. So do concrete steps that parents can take to protect children from the dangers of the online life.
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Darwinian evolution theory allows any state of affairs that dates to eons ago to be called “evolution” even when, as in this case, the facts imply the opposite.
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The spectrum used for wireless communication and radar is filling up fast and spectrum sharing offers a solution to the looming crisis.
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