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Something strange is happening. Software used to be a durable product — you bought it (or used open source made by someone else), it had a name, a version number, a brand, and a lifecycle.…
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Martin was looking through his books and found a 1997 copy of Architects of the Web — Robert H. Reid’s firsthand account of the 1,000 days that built the commercial web. Reading it sparked a…
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Paul Graham published “The Brand Age” last week — a forensic history of Swiss watchmaking as a case study in what technology does to markets. It’s worth reading in full. Here’s what it made me…
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Meghan O’Gieblyn’s “Ghost in the Cloud” argues that transhumanism is Christian eschatology in secular clothing. The word transhuman first appeared in Dante’s Paradiso. Nikolai Fedorov proposed using science to resurrect the dead in the 1880s.…
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Douglas Engelbart wrote “Augmenting Human Intellect” in 1962. Six years later he showed hypertext, video conferencing, real-time collaboration, and the mouse in a single session. People call him the inventor of the mouse. That undersells…
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