Posts tagged with Technology
Review: Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy
Inventions form many of the foundations of modern society. Many are easily recognizable from children's textbooks: the lightbulb, railroads, the printing press, the internet. Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy explores a set of complementary inventions. This…
Strategic Paper
30 years in, and the electronic revolution that would bring about the end of scribing on dead timber seems to be perpetually another three decades away, if it even still exists as a goal for most people and offices. The…
Face-Mapping for Custom Glasses
My wife is an optometrist. That means that my lenses prescriptions are always up-to-date, and we have a lot of vision-correcting hardware around the house[1]. While I've worn glasses since high school, they've usually been…
Tech Gadget Wearables as Jewelry
Cell phones—even starting with the big-and-bulky candy bar phones of yesteryear—started the process of miniaturizing electronics into ever-smaller and more portable form factors. The popularity of the smartphone took that to the next level, not only in terms…
Review: Creative Selection
Within two chapters, I realized that I may not be the right audience for Creative Selection. A book written by a software engineer at Apple through its revival of the Mac and introduction of the iPhone, it goes through—in…
Review: Bad Blood
The meteoric rise and fall of Theranos is fantastical, to the point where reality feels like fiction, and its characters and events seem like the work of an overenthusiastic author. Bad Blood is a book that chronicles the startup, tracing…
