I’ve loved Shimizu’s work since a friend pointed me to her public page on Facebook a year ago. (Come for the ...

I’ve mentioned Europe’s new entry and border system a few times now but this week marked the start of the official roll-out, with all countries on board by April. On the plus side, immigration lines ...

On about half the flights I’ve been on the past few years, I see a lonely lost earbud on a seat or the floor when deplaning.

Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 1985 when almost any dot com name you wanted was available? All words; short ones, cool ones. All you had to do was ask for the ...

Isaac Asimov’s 768-page Understanding Physics clearly explains the principles of motion, sound, heat, light, magnetism, and electricity in a historical context. It gave me a better understanding of ...

I am a founder building in ML Infrastructure space, currently living in San Francisco originally from Delhi, India. I love to write, play poker, escape into nature. Learn more about me here. — Ash ...

The fastest growing entity today is information. Information is expanding ten times faster than the growth of any other manufactured or natural product on this planet. According to a calculation Hal ...

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of ...

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This ...

I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential ...

Claude Shannon invented the modern mathematical definition of information, casting it in terms of bits and entropy. Shannon also tinkered with odd contraptions, but his boldest most brilliant ...