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[Note: I really liked this book and if I criticize it that’s not meant as an attack but just as what I do with interesting ideas. Note that Robin has offered to debate me about some of this a…

Preface:I have worked in the United States and England as a researcher for most of my life, I am Italian and a few years ago I became the father of a beautiful daughter. Unfortunately, for reasons …

Circa 1998, at the tender age of 10 or 11, my friend Jeff showed me the first website I can remember distinctly seeing. It was hampsterdance.com. I don't thin

* “It is a sign of the speed at which events are moving that Hurst and Blackett’s unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious intention of the translator’s preface and notes is to tone down the book’s ferocity and present Hitler in as kindly a […]

Most of my education I have been writing for teachers to read my work. I wanted to show them that I understand. So the words on every page I written were struct

How much can humans really be controlled by the latest artificial intelligence technology?

Believe it or not, there was a time before search engines. Discovery on the web was far more difficult. It was easy to get lost. That is, until a few different people created a map.

First Published May 15, 2020

Learning from history is often problematic — history is context and path dependent, and it doesn't repeat itself. But what if there is a better way to read history, one that sidesteps these problems?

Everybody seems to disagree with everybody You don’t need to look far on web dev social media to find somebody lecturing everybody and nobody about how you should do web development.

On the “phantom time hypothesis”, the bizarre conspiracy theory that 297 years of European history were entirely made up.

There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available t…

The software and app market has evolved immensely within the last 30 years. Think about it: Consumer software barely existed just 20 years ago. At that time, it was mostly large enterprise software or companies focused on developing software for professionals.

An introduction to John-Paul Sartre on Personal Relationships through an examination of his famous quote, “Hell Is Other People.”

How an exhausted liberalism killed sci-fi’s sunniest franchise

In a scorching, searching guide to saving our souls from the digital apocalypse, James Poulos shows how the swarm of programs and devices unleashed by our leaders has transformed our lives and defied our dreams, throwing the future into terrifying doubt. Rising above the din of the discourse, he reveals how the first g

I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan

In the first two parts of this series, we talked about the archetypes that inhabit organizations (Sociopaths, Losers, Clueless), what they do (the Gervais Principle) and how (the four languages). I…

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