Posts tagged with Technology
The Geography of EV Charging Stations
We've had our Tesla Model 3 for well over a year now, but never managed to take it on a road trip outside the Bay Area until this past holiday period, in part due to my concerns about…
Peak Smartphone
A couple years back, in the midst of the revival of PC hardware—new construction materials, screens, touch interfaces, etc.—, there were a handful of bearish takes which noted that the industry was on its last gasps, that in the…
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'…
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…
