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The best innovations of 2013
Via the Washington Post: At times, 2013 seemed like a science fiction movie come to life. The new DARPA Atlas bots seemed to be inspired from the “Terminator” film franchise, Stewart Brand’s concept of “de-extinction” seemed to be lifted directly from the storyline of “Jurassic Park,” Motorola’s new “password pill” reminded some of “The Matrix,” and new test-tube food concepts brought to mind […]
Bill Gates and the Start of Microsoft
It may have been the most momentous purchase of a magazine in the history of the Out of Town News stand in Harvard Square. Paul Allen, a college dropout from Seattle, wandered into the cluttered kiosk one snowy day in December 1974 and saw that the new issue of Popular Electronics featured a home computer […]
NYT: Garry Davis, Man of No Nation Who Saw One World of No War, Dies at 91
On May 25, 1948, a former United States Army flier entered the American Embassy in Paris, renounced his American citizenship and, as astonished officials looked on, declared himself a citizen of the world. In the decades that followed, until the end of his long life last week, he remained by choice a stateless man — […]
Learning to Code..
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672655/designers-learn-to-code-heres-how-to- “WHEN YOU START EXPERIMENTING WITH CODE, YOU FIND THAT THE NEW TOOL HELPS YOU DO YOUR JOB BETTER. JUST THINK OF IT LIKE GETTING PUNCHED IN THE FACE FOR THE FIRST TIME–ONCE IT HAPPENS, YOU REALIZE IT’S NOT THAT BAD.”