Category Archives: Computers

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Luke Ford

From LROB: * Shockley was a terrible manager and a passionate racist, who devoted his post-Nobel decades to publicising home-brewed theories about ‘dysgenics’ or genetic degradation and racial differences being a form of natural ‘colour-coding’ to warn about low intelligence. … Continue reading →

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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Posted on May 14, 2021 by Luke Ford

Is author Sherry Turkle alone? Has she experienced a massive increase in loneliness since the development of smart phones or is she just so smart and mature, she can handle technology, while the plebs are not to be trusted with … Continue reading →

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Book Club: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy (8-10-18)

Posted on August 10, 2018 by Luke Ford

MP3: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593/book-club-hackers-heroes-of-the-computer-revolution-by-steven-levy From Amazon.com: This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy’s classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution’s original hackers — those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early ’80s who took risks, bent … Continue reading →

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Did The PC Cause PC?

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer: * When you have non-PC stats to report, you describe them in extremely dry language and do not draw any conclusions, letting the reader to so if he wants. Pew Hispanic Trust, for instance, reports a … Continue reading →

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NBC Says You Can Watch All Events Live Through Its Sports App

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Luke Ford

But the app does not work on PCs. I don’t want to watch on a tablet or iPhone. I want to watch on my big screen computer monitor. I guess I need to get Chromecast. By the way, because of … Continue reading →

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