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Copy and paste
Copy and paste is probably the most impactful productivity tool in the modern workplace.
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Perpetual motion machines
Bhāskara II was a smart man. He has been called the greatest mathematician of medieval India. Also known as Bhāskarāchārya, he reached an understanding…
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Humans out of the loop
Sitting beside the crossroads of technology and humanity, watching it all go by
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A clockwork butterfly
Sitting beside the crossroads of technology and humanity, watching it all go by
What technology does to expertise
My car broke down.
Garbage in, garbage out
“If you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” The members of parliament asking such a question clearly don’t understand…
The soft power of civil society
The North Wind and the Sun had a difference of opinion.
Down with dogmatism
There was once a old farmer who had spent many years tending his crops.
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Building cathedrals
Ernst Friedrich Zwirner and Richard Voigtel had a difficult job to do. They were architects and they were designing a cathedral that was to become the…
In search of the perfect potato
What happens when platforms replace pipelines and the promise of getting what you want.
Don't let machines make decisions
1979 had it’s fair share of firsts.
What happens when we stop telling stories?
When introducing the iPhone in 2007, Steve Jobs referred to it as a revolutionary product that would change everything. He was more right than he knew…
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