TECHNOLOGY

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Earth Day – Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

by Tony Shea April 22, 2015

The fact that Earth Day coincides with J. Robert Oppenheimer’s birthday is perhaps no coincidence. Along with Enrico Fermi, Oppenheimer developed the first prototype nuclear weapon that was detonated in the “Trinity” test in Los Alamos, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Upon seeing the colossal column of fire and resultant mushroom cloud, Oppenheimer quoted […]

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It Came from 2000: The Palm VIIx

by Jay Hood August 15, 2014

Tap. Tap. Tappity tappity tap. Tap TAP TAP TAP! That, my friends, is the sound of productivity. That is the sound of a captain of industry hard at work. That is the sound of a mover. The sound of a shaker. The sound of a man doing BIG things. Checking his calendar. Checking his notebook. […]

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In the Grand Scheme of Things

by Daedalus Howell June 3, 2013

Your gadgets are going to kill you. Not today but someday soon and we’ll have only ourselves to blame. Because we gave them the Internet. There has been much chatter about the “Internet of Things,” I thought I should read up on it, at least before their uprising so that I can at least have […]

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Table of Contents Locks Horns with Wikipedia

by Tony Shea April 1, 2013

A new database of information is rising up to compete with Wikipedia. And it may just change all of our lives – or what we think of as our lives. While Wikipedia has become the leading source of information on the web, maintained and edited by a group of online volunteers, and free to the […]

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