History of Abacus and Ancient Computing - KASS
fascinating overview w/bibliography concerning tally sticks, tokens, counting boards, abaci, etc
Gemini Portal
collected resources on degrowth, communities & scale, forgiveness & growth, and imagining a kinder future on and offline
Permacomputing | viznut
Frugal computing • Wim Vanderbauwhede
"To use devices for longer, a change in business models as well as consumer attitudes is needed. This requires raising awareness and education but also providing incentives for behavioural change. And to support devices for a long time, an infrastructure for repair and maintenance is needed, with long-term availability of parts, open repair manuals and training. To make all this happen, economic incentives and policies will be needed (e.g. taxation, regulation)."
Four Steve Jobs Myths about Pixar
"In short, the look and feel and vision of Pixar all came from inside and predated Jobs by at least a decade. Steve Jobs was a crucially important money man for the company, and later a business dealmaker of the first order for it. He was responsible for the look and feel and vision of Apple, but not of Pixar. The marketing message seems to have been crafted to make it seem that what was true for Apple was also true for Pixar - one genius fits all - but that was not the case as the details make clear."
artificial intelligence is a fake idea
Martin's got the right idea