Requiem for a Craptop
Today I said goodbye to the MacBook that served me and my wife for almost three years — served us tirelessly, loyally, without ever judging the uses to which we put it. It was part of our household...
View ArticleWhat is … Watson?
We have always loved making our computers perform. I don’t say “machines” — brute mechanization is too broad a category, our history with industrialization too long (and full of skeletons). Too many...
View ArticleNotes on Spacewar
What is it about Spacewar that so completely captures my imagination? Teaching my Theory and History of Video Games class, I once again crack open Steven Levy’s great book Hackers: Heroes of the...
View ArticleThe new iPad
I’m neither an automatic Apple acolyte nor a naysayer, but the company and its technologies do go deep with me: my first computer, purchased back in 1980, was an Apple II+ with 48K of RAM, and between...
View ArticleSpared by the gorgon’s gaze
Well, it finally happened: a friend showed me his new iPad, and I lived to tell the tale. As I indicated in this post a few weeks ago, Apple’s recent refresh of its game-changing tablet computer...
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