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I don’t find Phillip Hermes’ idea for beating the traffic jams of the future particularly attractive: …the Urban Mole is a capsule that travels through existing networks of underground pipes in order to transport packages as diverse as groceries, signed documents and any title that appears on Oprah’s Book Club. The Mole frees up . . . → Read More: Wired: Amazon will deliver books via the sewer Today’s El País contains a cartoon, of a minister saying: Ampliaremos la edad de jubilación a los setenta, pero no os preocupeis, a partir le los cuarenta ya no os contrataremos (“We’ll raise the retirement age to 70, but don’t worry, we won’t hire anyone over 40.”) Which is reflects perfectly the current . . . → Read More: Broken down Seth Weintraub pitches an interesting idea in Computer World: … I think the SD card is going to replace the DVD drive on most of Apple’s laptops going forward. If you really need a DVD, you’ll be able to buy an external USB Superdrive – but that option will mostly be a safety . . . → Read More: Will the DVD go the same way as the floppy? Honeywell 316 Home Computer (picture from Wikipedia) There’s an interesting short article in Wired: In 1969, the Neiman Marcus catalog offered the first home PC, a stylish stand-up model called the Honeywell Kitchen Computer, priced at $10,600. The picture shows an aproned housewife caressing the machine, with this tag line: “If she can only . . . → Read More: Home computers have come a long way in 40 years Brilliant beginning to this version of “Africa” – quite tropical. (via Think or Thwim) … the executors and anyone else needing access to the documentation about my estate could have several problems. The same applies in the case of my wife, Ruth: a lot of our insurance policies, contracts and so on are in German the remainder are in English, so an understanding of both languages will . . . → Read More: When I’m dead and gone… |
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