A File For All Seasons
Prior to Johannes Gutenberg, the information cycles of knowledge creation, propagation, and consumption worked via a tightly controlled trickle of manually crafted books. These cycles were slow and highly inefficient …
Harry Potter had a farm
As strange as it sounds, the most successful British products of our age are “The Lord of the Rings” from a time when the British Empire still ruled the waves, …
Knowledge, Context, Purpose
They say the forest can be hidden by the trees, yet the devil is in the details, and in any case, he who increases knowledge, increases pain. Knowledge comes in …
I read your PDF
In 1944, inspired by Rommel‘s book, George Patton embarked on his own French adventure. Hollywood responsibly supported the national war spirit in various ways. The WW2 defense effort was bolstered …
The AI jungle book for engineering
It’s a jungle out there, and it’s a jungle in here, too. Those who ignore it receive the Darwin Award one way or another. History is full of examples of …
