When I first heard about this, I was really struck. But it made all the sense. There are more than a million people just in the US living without at least one of their hands, and statistics say that this number will grow by 50,000 every year. It is sad and...
I am sort of ok with Chatbots, you know, the ones that now popup on websites. Especially if they are really good and provide me with the information that I need. Basically, this would be a chatbot that passes the “Turing test”. If you don’t know...
I was listening at an excellent podcast episode from “99% Invisible”, about how the US flag got designed and crafted. It happens to be that there is an actual surviving specimen of the Star Spangled Banner (not our anthem, but an actual flag), which is now...
That things are speeding up is nothing new for anyone, but the rate of change is increasing quite dramatically. In a previous post, I described the process that I use to publish on this newsletter, and if you may remember, I try to keep a backlog of articles, because...
Of course, you can, and of course, we had. While the tendency is to think that the wheel is a static concept, it has gone through a lot of transformation throughout the years. Starting as just a cylindrical roller, it evolved into the carriage wheel. Then the Michelin...
