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Popular Electronics December 1958

Vrolijk kerstfeest iedereen. Kerstmis zag er in ieder geval erg anders uit, vijftig jaren geleden.

Christmas Fun with Electronic Robots, uit het december nummer van Popular Electronics, 1958.

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New York Times, Special Edition

New York Times Special Edition

Communters in New York were surprised today by a free edition of The New York Times. Something was up, because it was a lot thinner than normal. Another clue is that it’s dated July 4, 2009, and full of articles talking about a future where Gitmo is closing, oil companies are nationalized, and the National […]

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Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes

Mini nuclear plant

Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb. The £13m shed-size reactors will be delivered by lorry.

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Extreme Makeover: White House Edition

White House Ziggurat

For all its majesty, the White House is basically the same knockoff neoclassical manse that John Adams relocated to in 1800. Sure, it’s riddled with history  —  but shouldn’t we just turn it into a museum and start fresh with something engineered for 21st-century challenges? Reimagining the President’s Residence.

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Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism

Kevin Kelly’s hypothesis is this: The rapidly increasing sum of all computational devices in the world connected online, including wirelessly, forms a [global] superorganism of computation with its own emergent behaviors.

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"Recession Will be Very Kind to Open Source"

This recession will be great for free and open source because of the shortage of cash. Last recession saw the mainstream legitimisation of open source operating systems because it was clear and away the most cost-effective choice.

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Hawking: If we survive the next 200 years, we should be OK

Stephen Hawking: “If we survive the next 200 years, we should be OK. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next 100 years, let alone next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn’t have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let’s hope we can avoid […]

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Wasmachine gebruikt slechts één glas water

Xeros wasmachine

Het Britse bedrijf Xeros heeft een wasmachine ontwikkeld die voor de hele was slechts één glas water nodig heeft. Daarmee gebruikt het apparaat liefst 98 procent minder water. 
Het water wordt verhit in de wastrommel, waardoor de vlekken losweken. Plastieke en herbruikbare plaatjes die de gebruiker aan de was toevoegt, moeten het vuil absorberen. 
Doordat de machine […]

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