A Niche in the Library of Babel

I recently spent a week in Bengaluru, Karanataka, India on a business trip.

I happen to have been at several chip conferences recently, and it’s depressing to see how quickly high-tech moves from one fad to another.

I recently learned about an extraordinary archeological discovery, that of an ancient high-tech culture that really was drowned in a cataclysm.

Most of the stuff in your daily life, of course, is made in the US.

We’re watching the tremendous Ken Burns PBS series “The American Revolution”.

I was out taking my constitutional the other evening when I noticed a new little free library.

The standard engineering story goes like this – someone thinks of a good idea, they found a startup to develop it, it gets backed by venture capitalists, it becomes a hit, everyone gets rich, and the field moves forward.

Our town has a theater, the Regent, where a lot of tribute bands come to play.

Last May 31st I attended Technology Day at MIT, where the school presents talks on all kinds of interesting research to its alumni.

A New Zealand-based company, Whoosh Solutions, is building a new kind of urban transit system – a network of overhead fixed cables that are used by self-driving battery-powered gondolas to go from point to point.

… was April 19, 1775, and that was plenty!