History Of Technology

Not so ancient history — A long time ago, during my time at university, I unknowingly embarked on a journey that would set the tone for my entire professional life. The journey on the path of data. Where does it come from? Where does it lead? Ever since that introductory course to time series analysis…

A core value that shapes our technological work is optimism about the future — The Empulse app was built by the Todreamalife agency in response to a call by Stanford University for ethical AI. Anomie has been summarized as “the condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals”. But the concept is a little more subtle than that. Man cannot become attached…

During the California Gold Rush (1848–1855) approximately 300,00 people uprooted themselves along with their entire families from across the United States for a mere chance at finding gold in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Alongside propelling California to statehood, the ’49 Gold Rush brought new mining techniques to the forefront and…

How a Business Failure Led to the Personal Computer —

The difference between history and other subjects is that it’s like math. You can’t cheat, you can’t turn to the internet for answers or look at the answer in the back of the book. You have to do it yourself. …

A new technology arrives in the marketplace. We understand that there are many factors that will determine whether this new product will survive in the marketplace and perhaps come to dominate and change our societal behaviors and expectations. Witness the arrival of Facebook on the scene in 2004 as, at…

Известно, что первая высадка человека на Луну 20 июля 1969 года едва не была прервана в последний момент: виной тому послужило ошибочное срабатывание аварийной сигнализации бортового компьютера лунного модуля “Аполлона-11” (Apollo Guidance Computer, AGC). …