Design for a Machine, French, eighteenth century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Elisha Whittelsey Collection, Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962.

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Volume XIV, Number 1 | winter 2021

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Greeks Bearing Gifts

Simon Winchester

Prometheus’ Toolbox

Adrienne Mayor

Fusion & Magic

Andrew Blum

Living in a World Without Stars

Curtis White

Map

Work in Progress

Miscellany

Start the wave.

Gig economy.

Computer bug.

Iron supplement.

Data migration.

Non-compete clause.

Hello from the other side.

Sudden jolt.

Mysterious and incomprehensible.

Pics or it didn’t happen.

Primary source.

A cascade of collisions.

Clear as a bell.

Petty patent.

Content warning.

Turn of the screw.

Voices In Time

Practical Magic

1637 | Leiden

Open Source

1894 | Washington, DC

Inventing the Superfluous

1914 | Columbia, MO

Photographic Memory

1840 | New York City

Destroyer of Worlds

1945 | New Mexico

Bureaucratic Drift

1708 | Lagado

Fire Starter

1878 | Newark, NJ

My Name Is…

c. 960 | Exeter

Isolation Booth

The Future | Underground

Means of Production

1922 | Dearborn, MI

Intelligent Design

1802 | Bishopwearmouth

Control Group

c. 27 BC | Rome

Destroying the Competition

1812 | Yorkshire

Technical Error

1995 | Lincoln, MT

Machine Learning

1829 | Craigenputtock

Computer, Enhance

1843 | London

Flight Plan

1908 | Kitty Hawk, NC

Work Force

1911 | Philadelphia

In the Cloud

c. 1260 | Paris

Engine Optimization

c. 213 BC | Syracuse

Nature’s Rival

c. 395 | Rome

Job Creation

1787 | Philadelphia

Waterwheel

c. 12 | Rome

All Things Considered

1841 | Lowell, MA

Tunnel Vision

1823 | London

Perpetual Motion

1150 | Ujjain

Hive Mind

1878 | Heidelberg

Artificial Selection

1863 | Christchurch

Top Gun

1519 | Bajaur

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

1916 | Franconia, NH

Charts and Graphs

Deus in Machina

Climate Control

Doomsday Devices

Critical Mass

Human vs. Machine

Technophobia

Perpetual Notions

I’ve Made a Terrible Mistake

Building Blocks

Contributors

Conversations

Linus Yale Jr. & Co. & Google Security Blog

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