#technology

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https://stratechery.com/2021/internet-3-0-and-the-...

This is a solid bit of writing from a few years back that explains a lot about the stages of growth...

alasdairw Apr 12, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/mode...

On the face of it, this is an absurd idea, born to soak up the excess cash of the over-privileged....

alasdairw Apr 12, 2019

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/us-lockh...

I... don't know what to make of this. If it's true, this is *huge* news. Just enormous, on a sort...

alasdairw Oct 15, 2014

http://www.cnngo.com/shanghai/life/sky-city-chines...

A new tallest building is not that interesting. What is interesting is that they're saying that can...

alasdairw Jun 18, 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-170995...

I can't decide if this is brilliant or creepy. Either way, it's an interesting little slice of the...

alasdairw Feb 24, 2012

http://gizmodo.com/5634258/the-most-popular-phone-...

This is the sort of thing that it's useful to keep in mind as perspective, when considering technolo...

alasdairw Oct 25, 2010

http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/...

I'm not posting this as an Apple fan - Apple are a long, long way from being the only example of thi...

alasdairw Sep 28, 2010

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/0...

I'm actually more optimistic about what "Big Society" can potentially achieve than most people I kno...

alasdairw Jul 26, 2010

http://kensegall.com/blog/2010/07/the-ever-arrogan...

I admit to coming off like a bit of an Apple fanboy, but still, this piece really nailed something f...

alasdairw Jul 23, 2010

http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/05/18/people-are-w...

Yes, someone at BERG has done a thing, and I'm linking to it again. What this thing is is a short e...

alasdairw May 19, 2010

http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2010/02/integr...

Trying to think if there's anything I can say other than "wow". Give it a handful of years, and thi...

alasdairw Feb 18, 2010

http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to...

Excellent article on the place for an iPad in the history of computing, and the generation shift tha...

alasdairw Jan 29, 2010

http://magicalnihilism.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/my...

I had the same text as part of my course back in 1995 (I think everyone did), and am quite taken wit...

alasdairw Jun 11, 2009