Most systems in everyday life had readily accessible fallbacks that you could rely on when the system of first choice was not available. We seem to have lost those now.
Category Archive: General
Whilst we can improve our technology to enhance our abilities, our anatomical and physiological limitations also determine what we can and cannot do.
This is a book to dip into only if you have good self-control: one word will lead to another, until you have visited each of the 500 or so.
The arrival of consumer VR is being delayed not because the headset can’t be done, but because current computers can’t deliver good enough graphics.
Current 3D movies are a throwback to the old cinema of spectacle, first mastered by the Lumière brothers and travelling showmen.
It appears that, for the moment, you should only wear an Apple Watch on the more popular outer/upper surface of your wrist.
Far from encouraging invention and technological progress, patents are increasingly the combat theatre of specialist intellectual property lawyers, the stock-in-trade of corporations that neither invent nor innovate.
After nearly a week with my Apple Watch (Milanese loop), I am surprised at how rapidly it uses […]
Will an efficient market weed out unreliable content, or are we doomed to wholesale inaccuracy?
ZFS looks like being one of the biggest missed opportunities in computing. But it is still almost sexy.
The Eclectic Light Company 