Only Dead Fish

Early morning on the 16th October 1962 and US National Security advisor McGeorge Bundy has just handed a folder of photographs to President John F.

In early June Peter Steinberger, the developer behind OpenClaw, posted (on X, but I’m not linking to X) something which seems to have changed a lot of influential people’s approaches to working with AI.

A couple of months ago the Oxford academic Carl Benedikt Frey wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times arguing that, as the application of AI becomes increasingly ubiquitous, more tasks that were once handled by professionals or businesses will shift…

In 1933 the American naturalist Aldo Leopold set out a principle which shaped decades of wildlife management.

In 1936 a 20 year-old Claude Shannon came to MIT from the University of Michigan to work with Vannevar Bush on his differential analyser, an early, room-sized mechanical computer.

By the early 1980s the General Motors assembly plant in Fremont California was widely regarded to be the worst performing car manufacturing site in the U.S.

In 1793 Eli Whitney invented a machine that could separate cotton fibers from their sticky seeds.

On 4 May 1948, the US Supreme Court ruled in a landmark antitrust case that would change the way that Hollywood studios worked forever.

In the late 19th Century sharpshooter Annie Oakley was one of the most popular acts within Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

Every so often an essay or post comes along that when you read it, your only wish is that it had come from your brain and your keyboard.