Early last week in the Chinese tech hub of Hangzhou, a slick, larger-than-life video screen beamed out four words that would drive tech giant Alibaba’s stock to historic levels and […]
American technologists have been telling educators to rapidly adopt their new inventions for over a century. In 1922, Thomas Edison declared that in the near future, all school textbooks would […]
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Short screech. Long screech. Static. More beeps. On September 30, one of the most memorable—if not infuriating—waiting experiences since the dawn of the […]
This article is part of The Scale Issue. Longest Continuously Operating Electronic Computer Voyager 1 and its twin space probe, both launched by NASA in 1977, were the first human-made […]
1. In 1967, I started my initial foray into the world of computers. My employer was a forward-thinking company called International Data Highways (IDH), the creation of my extraordinary guide, […]
