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

Living in a World Without Stars

Curtis White

Fusion & Magic

Andrew Blum

Prometheus’ Toolbox

Adrienne Mayor

Map

Work in Progress

Miscellany

Start the wave.

Content warning.

Gig economy.

Primary source.

Data migration.

Turn of the screw.

Non-compete clause.

Computer bug.

Mysterious and incomprehensible.

A cascade of collisions.

Iron supplement.

Hello from the other side.

Sudden jolt.

Petty patent.

Clear as a bell.

Pics or it didn’t happen.

Voices In Time

In the Cloud

c. 1260 | Paris

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

1916 | Franconia, NH

Waterwheel

c. 12 | Rome

Intelligent Design

1802 | Bishopwearmouth

Perpetual Motion

1150 | Ujjain

Work Force

1911 | Philadelphia

All Things Considered

1841 | Lowell, MA

Fire Starter

1878 | Newark, NJ

Technical Error

1995 | Lincoln, MT

My Name Is…

c. 960 | Exeter

Destroyer of Worlds

1945 | New Mexico

Bureaucratic Drift

1708 | Lagado

Flight Plan

1908 | Kitty Hawk, NC

Tunnel Vision

1823 | London

Job Creation

1787 | Philadelphia

Top Gun

1519 | Bajaur

Destroying the Competition

1812 | Yorkshire

Practical Magic

1637 | Leiden

Inventing the Superfluous

1914 | Columbia, MO

Isolation Booth

The Future | Underground

Hive Mind

1878 | Heidelberg

Open Source

1894 | Washington, DC

Artificial Selection

1863 | Christchurch

Machine Learning

1829 | Craigenputtock

Control Group

c. 27 BC | Rome

Computer, Enhance

1843 | London

Engine Optimization

c. 213 BC | Syracuse

Nature’s Rival

c. 395 | Rome

Photographic Memory

1840 | New York City

Means of Production

1922 | Dearborn, MI

Charts and Graphs

I’ve Made a Terrible Mistake

Technophobia

Building Blocks

Doomsday Devices

Deus in Machina

Perpetual Notions

Human vs. Machine

Climate Control

Critical Mass

Contributors

Conversations

Linus Yale Jr. & Co. & Google Security Blog

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