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9. Arc-Transmitter Development (1904-1928)

http://www.earlyradiohistory.us/sec009.htm

continuous-wave technology also showed promise -- the arc-transmitter, which had been perfected beginning in 1902 by Valdemar Poulsen of Denmark. At the 1904 Saint Louis Internati

LEIBNIZ: The Universal Genius and the Foundations of Reality

http://www.hilmar-alquiros.de/Leibniz!.htm

in computational technology.  In 1676, on his way to Hanover, Leibniz visited Amsterdam and met Spinoza from November 18 to 21, just three months before Spinoza’s death. Appo
Leibniz's vision of reality, AI, philosophy, and computation—exploring logic, monads, the digital universe, and quantum mechanics.

High Tech Hayekians

http://philsalin.com/hth/hth.html

the Coming Era of Nanotechnology, an investigation of the nature and implications of startling advances in technology toward which we are moving. Nanotechnology refers to the next

Speaking Truth to Power on Capitol Hill

https://www.heartcom.org/CapitolHill.htm

communication) technology of the day.    51 years later (2025), it should be a self-evident truth    that the computer/Internet revolution has brought us to &nb

Our Comrade The Electron - Webstock Conference Talk

https://idlewords.com/talks/our_comrade_the_electron.htm

confront it. Working in technology, we all have moments when it feels like the veil has been lifted, and we catch a glimpse of what's coming next. These moments are personal, but

2blowhards.com: The NYTBR Section and Fiction 5: Literary Fiction and Literature

http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2007/04/michael_blowhar_3.html

of 2007 was the technology columnist David Pogue . (He's awfully good, you know.) * Scenario #3: Some fiction from our era is indeed remembered in 2300 -- only it isn't any of our
2blowhards.com - a weblog

What is Capitalism? - Ayn Rand

http://www.ancapfaq.com/library/WhatIsCapitalism.html

in the field of technology has a quality reminiscent of the days preceding the economic crash of 1929: riding on the momentum of the past, on the unacknowledged remnants of an Ari
The philosophical justification of capitalism - rational self-interest.

The Myth of Technological Progress — Chadnet

https://wiki.chadnet.org/the-myth-of-technological-progress

been space flight, a technology we’ve mostly abandoned, and its daughter technology—microelectronics. Computer networks came a year or two after 1959 and didn’t change very much,
The greatest website on the interwebz!

Antifragile - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Derek Sivers

https://sive.rs/book/Antifragile

that have survived. Technology is at its best when it is invisible. When it displaces the deleterious, unnatural, alienating, and, most of all, inherently fragile preceding techno

How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel? | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-solar-panel

Problems Obsolete Technology Offline Reading Archive Donate NTM Newsletter RSS Feed How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel? George Cove, a forgotten solar power pioneer, may have bui

Southwest Museum Of Engineering, Communications and Computation -Arizona's Radio and Television Museum - Also History Of Computers andComputa

http://www.smecc.org/

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Welcome to the southwest museum of engineering, communications and computation, located in the historic downtown section Glendale Arizona. The following topics and more: General

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/intro.html

KDE utilized Troll Technology's Qt library, a piece of code that was proprietary, but quite stable and mature. On the other hand, the GNOME people decided to use the GTK+ library,


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