In connection with this week’s bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, U.S. News and World Report has a great article on Lincoln’s interest in technology such as the telegraph. Suggests the article, were Lincoln alive today, “he would fight just as hard to keep his BlackBerry as President Barack Obama did.” Also turns out that Lincoln […]
Fall ’23 students – the assigned book and initial assignments are posted. See links below. Last updated July 24, 2023
The great science writer James Gleick writes in today’s NYT about the future of books: As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by […]
