When a dis­tin­guished but eld­erly sci­ent­ist states that some­thing is pos­sible, he is almost cer­tainly right. When he states that some­thing is impossible, he is prob­ably wrong. The only way of dis­cov­er­ing the lim­its of the pos­sible is to ven­ture a little way past them into the impossible. Any suf­fi­ciently advanced tech­no­logy is indis­tin­guish­able from magic. by...

The film Man & Com­puter, made in 1965 by IBM’s UK branch, provides a basic under­stand­ing of com­puter oper­a­tions. A large por­tion of the film shows the ways in which a com­puter can be sim­u­lated by five people using the stand­ard office equip­ment of the day. Start­ing in the 1940s, IBM became a major pro­du­cer of...

We spent spent June on the road, tak­ing an East­ern Europe tour. Par­don our break in posting.

A story about the Semantic Web by Kate Ray. Inter­views with: Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, Chris Dixon, David Wein­ber­ger, Nova Spi­vack, Jason Shel­len, Lee Fei­gen­baum, John Hebeler, Alon Halevy, David Kar­ger, Abra­ham Bernstein

This clip is raw from Cam­era E-8 on the launch umbil­ical tower/mobile launch pro­gram of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. This is an HD trans­fer from the 16mm original. The cam­era is run­ning at 500 fps, mak­ing the total clip of over 8 minutes rep­res­ent just 30 seconds of actual time. Nar­ra­tion is provided by...

Chisu — Baden-Baden Enjoy.