Pinboard (earth2marsh) https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/public/ recent bookmarks from earth2marsh Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did 2026-03-18T05:37:14+00:00 https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller earth2marshBut why? Why did the ATM, literally called the automated teller machine, not automate the teller, while an entirely orthogonal technology—the iPhone—actually did? The answer, I think, is complementarity.
I am not a “denier” on the question of technological job loss; Vance’s blithe optimism is not mine. But I’m skeptical that simply slotting AI into human-shaped jobs will have the results people seem to expect. The history of technology, even exceptionally powerful general-purpose technology, tells us that as long as you are trying to fit capital into labor-shaped holes you will find yourself confronted by endless frictions: just as with electricity, the productivity inherent in any technology is unleashed only when you figure out how to organize work around it, rather than slotting it into what already exists. We are still very much in the regime of slotting it in. And as long as we are in that regime, I expect disappointing productivity gains and relatively little real displacement
]]> economics productivity jobs technology ai llms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:6ba0fb34df00/ Anthro-complexity 5/5 - The Cynefin Co 2026-03-16T20:31:13+00:00 https://thecynefin.co/anthro-complexity-5-5/ earth2marshWhen a new technical system is introduced into an organisation, the relevant question is not only whether the roles and coordination mechanisms have been redesigned to fit it. It is what meanings are being enacted around it, what identities are at stake in adopting or resisting it, what narratives people use to make sense of what it is and what it does to them, and what the hidden transcripts are about the official account of why it is being introduced. The socio-technical framework can accommodate these questions as additions to its vocabulary. The substrate shift that anthro-complexity proposes treats them as primary rather than supplementary.
It is the characteristic failure mode of practitioners who have understood the descriptive account of complexity, emergence, nonlinearity, and unintended consequences, but not what that account implies for their accountability. The alibi works by treating emergence as an exculpatory fact rather than as a design condition. Once you understand that meaning emerges from the conditions you create, you own the conditions in full. The fact that you cannot predict or control what emerges from them does not diminish your accountability for the conditions themselves; it increases the care required in designing them
]]> sociotechnical technology adoption emergence responsibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:9ee4c79e0259/ Maybe the "A" in AI Sometimes Stands For Asshole 2025-12-20T22:26:55+00:00 https://www.leahreich.com/maybe-the-a-in-ai-sometimes-stands-for-asshole/ earth2marshRegardless of whether any of us can explain how an LLM works or what the technical specifications are, we can at least help other people understand that the technology is a machine and a tool. No matter how it's packaged or described, it doesn't think or feel. It takes information you give it to generate guesses based on billions of pieces of data. It uses cognitive computational processing to mimic human output.
It's almost like no matter how hard you try to come up with bigger and better systems that provide more answers faster than ever, people still need to do the work that a machine can't do for them: Figure out how to be human
]]> LLMs criticism technology humanity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:5257fd31e854/ Building The Intent Engine: How Instacart is Revamping Query Understanding with LLMs | by Yuanzheng Zhu | Nov, 2025 | tech-at-instacart 2025-11-17T16:22:53+00:00 https://tech.instacart.com/building-the-intent-engine-how-instacart-is-revamping-query-understanding-with-llms-3ac8051ae7ac earth2marshWe turned to Large Language Models (LLMs) for their vast pre-trained knowledge. We saw the opportunity not just to use these models, but to steer them into becoming deep domain experts for our vertical. This post details that journey. Our strategy was layered, moving from context-engineering with guardrails to our ultimate goal: fine-tuning to distill proprietary knowledge directly into a LLM. This approach transforms a generalist model into a true specialist. It has shifted our core challenge from feature engineering to productionizing these powerful backbones while managing latency and cost.]]> llms queries techniques technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:227c66103a24/ Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity 2025-08-07T17:05:35+00:00 https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/disingenuous-discourse/ earth2marshEven if Large Language Models resulted in a 20% improvement in productivity (unlikely) that would still be substantially less than the negative impact of the overall productivity-hostile design of the modern workplace. And if they harm overall productivity (as is likely) companies have already demonstrated that they absolutely do not care about that one single jot. Control and stock prices are all that matters.]]> llms technology trends business productivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:f2f4ce821d98/ Dr. Pangloss's Panopticon - by Henry Farrell 2025-07-17T04:33:39+00:00 https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/dr-panglosss-panopticon earth2marshThe Luddites themselves seem to have understood not just what the machines of the age meant for them but also that this was a choice about how to use technology and for whose benefit. In the words of a Glasgow weaver, The theorists in political economy attach more importance to the aggregate accumulation of wealth and power than to the manner of its diffusion, or its effects on the interior of society. The Glasgow weaver still has a point, some two centuries later. Many “theorists in political economy” still attach importance to the collective accumulation of wealth and power, without inquiring closely how it is distributed, or what second order consequences it may have for society. Acemoglu and Johnson are, of course, themselves political economists, but they look to push back against some of the main tendencies in the field.]]> luddites progress technology power https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:e23e741e007d/ Prescriptive technologies | A Working Library 2025-04-24T01:26:23+00:00 https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/prescriptive-technologies earth2marshBy contrast, a prescriptive technology breaks a process down into steps, each of which can be undertaken by a different person, often with different expertise. Franklin calls this specialization by process, as opposed to holistic technologies’ specialization by product. The classic prescriptive technology is the factory model that emerged in the Industrial Revolution, but Franklin locates much earlier examples, in particular, Chinese bronze casting from 1200 BC.]]> optimization work process technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:ca473e20bddf/ An Inside Look at the NYC Subway’s Archaic Signal System - The New York Times 2025-04-21T01:22:40+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/20/nyregion/nyc-subway-signals.html earth2marshsubway nyc trains technology upgrades transit https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:4fc6fd03916e/ Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine 2025-04-20T21:42:20+00:00 https://archive.org/ earth2marshThese are recordings of Ursula Franklin's public lectures that she made as part of the 1989 Massey Lectures series. The recordings were broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in November, 1989. The lectures were published in a book The Real World of Technology in 1990. A second edition with four additional chapters was published in 1999. If you want you can drop this URL in your Podcast player to listen to them there: https://archive.org/download/the-real-world-of-technology/podcast.xml]]> technology lectures mp3 podcasts https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:a337ff80b2a5/ The 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, "The Real World of Technology" | CBC Radio 2025-04-20T21:37:43+00:00 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1989-cbc-massey-lectures-the-real-world-of-technology-1.2946845 earth2marshTechnology has always been a part of human existence. Today though, says the experimental physicist, Ursula M. Franklin, technology has large-scale effects on culture itself. Ursula M. Franklin is an experimental physicist, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, a former board member of the National Research Council and the Science Council of Canada, and a companion of the Order of Canada. She has been awarded honorary degrees by more than 10 Canadian universities.]]> lectures audio technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:431aab59912a/ Ursula's list 2025-04-20T21:34:03+00:00 https://www.wrecka.ge/ursulas-list/ earth2marshToward the end of The Real World of Technology, Franklin offers a casual and unfussy checklist for evaluating public projects and funding: Should one not ask of any public project or loan whether it: (1) promotes justice; (2) restores reciprocity; (3) confers divisible or indivisible benefits; (4) favours people over machines; (5) whether its strategy maximizes gain or minimizes disaster; (6) whether conservation is favoured over waste; and (7), whether the reversible is favoured over the irreversible? The last item is obviously important. Considering that most projects do not work out as planned, it would be helpful if they proceeded in a way that allowed revision and learning, that is, in small reversible steps.
As Franklin said, “There’s no way to be secure when others are more insecure; there’s no way to reduce fear through means that make the burden on others greater.” (This is from a speech, “When the Seven Deadly Sins Became the Seven Cardinal Virtues,” collected in Ursula Franklin Speaks.)
]]> technology systems projects checklists justice https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:b3e7f35e101b/ tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster | by Bianca Wylie | Feb, 2025 | Medium 2025-02-17T00:31:20+00:00 https://biancawylie.medium.com/tech-isnt-the-future-it-s-just-capitalism-faster-3f4502748243 earth2marsh“In organizing, we sometimes expect people, including ourselves, to shed the habits this society has embedded in us through sheer force of will, when in reality we all need practice. Activities that help us hone our practice of listening can make us better organizers, improve our personal relationships, and help us build stronger and longer-lasting movements.” To tie this all together, and back to technology - a lot of automation relies on leveraging convenience. AI summaries do very little to help us learn how to listen. Skim and speed-read, no physical discomfort of sitting through a tedious conversation. The short-cut on the switchback, the summary of the meeting so you don’t have to go, and in the process, you don’t have to engage with the mess that is a bigger set of relations.]]> organizing technology automation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:7edd9702b2e2/ What is a Cloud Adoption Framework? - CAF Explained - AWS 2024-10-23T01:53:53+00:00 https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/cloud-adoption-framework/ earth2marshA cloud adoption framework (CAF) is a set of best practices, tools, and guidance that helps organizations get started with cloud technologies. Moving to the cloud is challenging due to legacy technologies, complex application interdependencies, existing infrastructure bottlenecks, plus knowledge and skill gaps. The cloud adoption framework helps organizations identify and mitigate risks, manage costs, and ensure compliance as they move their workloads to the cloud. It also provides guidance on how to optimize governance and security in the cloud for improved efficiency.]]> technology clouds adoption collateral https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:d4a0fc1f9abb/ Why "AI" projects fail 2024-09-04T21:32:14+00:00 https://tante.cc/2024/09/03/why-ai-projects-fail/ earth2marshwe’ve been doing this for decades now, with every new technology we spend a lot of money to get a lot of bloody noses for way too little outcome. Because we keep not looking at actual, real problems in front of us – that the people affected by them probably can tell you at least a significant part of the solution to. No we want a magic tool to make the problem disappear. Which is a significantly different thing than solving it.]]> ai technology products programming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:3004b84540ed/ High Modernism made our world - by Henry Farrell 2024-08-03T06:36:17+00:00 https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/high-modernism-made-our-world earth2marsh Programmable Mutter Subscribe Sign in Read in the Substack app Open app High Modernism made our world On James Scott and technology Henry Farrell Jul 29, 2024 65 9 The political scientist James Scott died last week. I only knew him through email - an occasional and irregular correspondence, mostly involving unsuccessful attempts to organize discussion at political science conferences around his work. As he suggested in a biographical essay, “Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast,” which just came out a few months ago, he was semi-detached from his academic discipline. I’ve wandered away from political science, though I could argue that political science has wandered away from me. I am honored even to be seen as a specialist, and probably as much to be embraced by anthropology and history. The world was better for his iconoclasm. Scott wrote far more beautifully than political scientists are supposed to write and his ideas and work were too big to fit into any discipline. Although arguments were largely rooted in the past, his book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, has shaped how we think about technology. Type your email... Subscribe Seeing Like a State is important because of how it sets up the problem of modernity. Scott was a critic of the vast impersonal systems - bureaucracies and markets - that modern society depends on. He believed that they prioritized the kind of thinking that comes easily to engineers over the kind that comes readily to peasants and craftsmen, and that we had lost something very important as a result. In Scott’s account, both governments and long distance markets “see” the world through abstractions - technical standards, systems of categories and the like. A government cannot see its people directly, or what they are doing. What it can see are things like statistics measuring population, the number of people who are employed or unemployed, the percentages of citizens who work in this sector or that, and the like. These measures - in numbers, charts and categories - allow it to set policy. Such knowledge grants its users enormous power to shape society - but often without the detailed, intimate understanding that would allow them to shape it well. There is a lot of social reality that is described poorly, or not at all, by categories or statistics. Even so, as governments and markets established their power, they not only saw the world in highly limited ways but shaped it so that it conformed better to their purblind understanding, ironing out the idiosyncrasies and apparent inefficiencies that got in the way of their vast projects. The state did not just ‘see’ its society through bureaucratic categories, but tried to remake this society so that it fit better with the government’s preconceptions. So too for the abstractions and general categories that long distance markets depend on, as the historian William Cronon observed in his great book on nineteenth century Chicago, Nature’s Metropolis (Scott was a fan). As another scholar observed of Chicago’s late twentieth century markets, abstract seeming financial conceptions may be engines, not cameras, making the economy rather than merely reflecting them. This abstraction of the world’s tangled complexities into simplified categories and standards underpinned vast state projects, and supported enormous gains in market efficiency. We could not live what we now consider to be acceptable lives without it, as Scott somewhat grudgingly acknowledged. It also often precipitated disaster, including Soviet collectivization and China’s Great Famine. So what does this have to do with modern information technology? Quite straightforwardly: if you read Scott, you will see marked similarities between e.g. the ambitions of 1960s bureaucrats, convinced that they can plan out countries and cities for “abstract citizens” and the visions of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, convinced that algorithms and objective functions would create a more efficient and more harmonious world. Scott focuses on officials in developing countries, who were starry-eyed about “planning.” Many of their notions came second-hand from the most striking example of high modernism, the effort of Soviet bureaucrats to use production statistics and linear programming to make the planned economy work. This provides the most obvious connection between what Scott talks about and the algorithmic ambitions of Silicon Valley today. A distinct whiff of “Comrades, Let’s Optimize!” lingers on, for example, in the airy optimism of Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth’s infamous “We connect people. Period” memo. Both the old ambitions and the new are bets on the universal power of a particular kind of engineering knowledge - what Scott calls techne, the kind of knowledge that can “be expressed precisely and comprehensively in the form of hard-and-fast rules (not rules of thumb), principles, and propositions.” Scott describes the limits of techne in ways that resonate today. The grand failed projects of the mid-to-late twentieth century - vast rationalized cities like Brasilia laid out according to plans that seemed almost to be the squares of a chessboard; efforts to displace peasants and plan agriculture at scale - are close cousins to Facebook’s failed ambitions to build a world of shared connections on algorithmic foundations, and the resulting social media Brezhnevism of today. Hence, 20th century state planning and 21st century social media evangelism are different flavors of what Scott called “high modernism … a sweeping, rational engineering of all aspects of social life in order to improve the human condition.” High modernism was both a faith and a practice. It turned rich and diffuse social relations into something much thinner, which could be measured and observed. Against this kind of knowledge, Scott suggested the value of metis - “the kind of knowledge that can be acquired only by long practice at similar but rarely identical tasks, which requires constant adaptation to changing circumstances.” This is the kind of tacit knowledge that peasants come to build about their land and the weather, or that people in less regimented societies accumulate about how to live with others in tolerable peace. Scott - an anarchist - greatly preferred this latter kind of knowledge, and the societies that valued it more, to the kind of world we live in today]]> technology society knowledge policy governance humanity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:08f18f81526c/ What we can Learn from Technological Maestros (Westrum, 2010) 2024-05-18T00:53:55+00:00 https://johnljerz.com/superduper/tlxdownloadsiteWEBSITEII/id242.html earth2marshTechnological "Maestro" Technological maestros are successful project managers with vision and certain personal attributes The concept was invented by Arthur Squires, author of The Tender Ship (1986) p.5 A maestro carries, in his or her head, a comprehensive mental model of the situation he or she is managing. p.6 The model includes: The key dependencies, the interrelations between the things managed Part of the model is technical Another part of the model is social The model provides an effective "map" of how things operate p.8-10 James B. Eads (1812-1887) Brilliant engineer and designer Designer of St. Louis Bridge Built ironclad warships for Lincoln during the civil war using innovative designs Used levees to create deeper channels in Mississippi delta to provide access to New Orleans Had walked miles on the bottom of the river in a diving bell, raising wrecked steamboats and their cargoes He understood how the Mississippi worked, because he had felt its forces first-hand All of this contributed to his mental model of the Mississippi, whose forces he used (or countered) in building his bridges, levees, and ships. Could play three chess games in his head at the same time Often could guess the answer to mathematical problems before doing the calculations p.11 Maestros foresee dangers They use "requisite imagination" to help them see what might go wrong.]]> technology maestros models mentalmodels modeling https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:a74865401239/ InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2024 - InfoQ 2024-04-06T20:33:40+00:00 https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-trends-2024/ earth2marshSocio-technical architecture is a new trend this year, and it encompasses several related ideas. One aspect is the role of architects, which has been previously referred to as "architecture as a team sport" or "architect as technical leader." This encapsulates the idea that anyone can make an architectural decision and that architects have a responsibility to mentor and teach others. The other aspect of socio-technical architecture covers ideas like Team Topologies and Conway's Law. More companies are starting to realize that the design of a system must consider all the people who build, support, and maintain the system. While any one concept may have moved to the early majority stage, the comprehensive idea of socio-technical architecture is currently at the early adopter stage.]]> sociotechnical trends architecture technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:a907d64a7a96/ Communications of the ACM - August 2020 - Why Computing Belongs Within the Social Sciences 2024-02-13T20:38:42+00:00 https://mags.acm.org/communications/august_2020/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1602692&app=false#articleId1602692 earth2marshFirst, computing must divest itself of its colonizing mentality toward other disciplines and to instead recognize that theoretic frameworks from outside computing have value and would indeed improve computing. Take, for instance, the subfield of data science. It has been especially good at identifying patterns in heterogeneous data sets. But to explain patterns and correlations "requires social theory and deep contextual knowledge."Display footnote number:16 Computer scientists are also increasingly finding themselves working in social and psychological domains. This work can be improved by theories and approaches already in place in those fields. A better understanding of human psychology, power, and the incentive structures in society, may have allowed us to avoid some of the socio-technical problems we face today. The lack of deep security measures in the initial Internet protocols, for instance, betrays the hopeful, but naïve understanding of human motivation held by the early pioneers of the Internet. The legitimation crises facing democracies today is at least partly a consequence of the social fragmentation enabled by digital platforms created by programmers with a minimalist understanding of what new communications modalities can do to an unprepared audience.Display footnote number:4 Finally, consider the relatively newfound appreciation within AI research about how preexisting human biases can pollute the training data using within machine learning. Perhaps less surprise would have been encountered had those working within AI been required to take, say, a course in anthropology. For almost 50 years, the most introductory anthropology training has endeavored to instill a recognition that cultural differences and perceptions of otherness biases the observations of researchers. And, yet, in AI research, we are now only starting to recognize this fact because of an institutionalized blindness to the accumulated insights of a century of social research. For too long within computing we have instead a tendency to rely on pop-culture theories about inevitable technology-driven social change that painted an attractive and self-satisfied veneer over our work. Moving forward, we need to do better, and be willing to inform both our work and our thinking, with the more nuanced, historically grounded, empirically supported thinking of the social sciences. We would all benefit from remembering the perspective articulated by Peter Denning: "I am now wary of believing what looks good to me as a computer scientist is good for everyone."Display footnote number:10]]> computers computerscience sciences social technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:2904441f7dac/ Melvin Kranzberg - Wikipedia 2024-02-09T23:14:27+00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Kranzberg earth2marshKranzberg is known for his laws of technology, the first of which states "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral."]]> history technology laws people https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:e10a538c82bc/ The Dao of Using Your Smartphone | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review 2023-09-06T00:42:09+00:00 https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-dao-of-using-your-smartphone earth2marshBy approaching technology with ritual, you don’t fall into the Luddite trap of seeing technology as a negative force that must be fought or limited. The problem is not with technology in itself. It never has been. Rather, as society changes, new forms of life emerge that need to be enchanted through new rituals. They are invented as means to ends, and it is up to us to transform them into ends in themselves. Modeling this approach is important not only for ourselves, but also our children. Tools and strategies for limiting children’s screentime transform technology into a forbidden fruit, and we don’t need religious myths to tell us what happens when we forbid a temptation. Seeking to limit new forms of technology, especially in the next generation, only sets up unhealthy relationships, not only between children and the technology itself, but also between them and the adults attempting to restrict them.]]> technology advice life parenting modeling balance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:b8ebd24838c7/ The Verge: The buttons on Zenith's original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvel 2023-07-31T06:15:32+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month earth2marsh television remote technology invention sound https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:9e1dba0440a1/ Interview: Kevin Kelly, editor, author, and futurist 2023-06-16T17:40:56+00:00 https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/interview-kevin-kelly-editor-author earth2marshIn English there is a curious and unhelpful conflation of the two meanings of the word “growth.”  The most immediate meaning is to increase in size, or increase in girth, to gain in weight, to add numbers, to get bigger. In short, growth means “more.” More dollars, more people, more land, more stuff. More is fundamentally what biological, economic, and technological systems want to do: dandelions and parking lots tend to fill all available empty places. If that is all they did, we’d be well to worry. But there is another equally valid and common use of the word “growth" to mean develop, as in to mature, to ripen, to evolve.  We talk about growing up, or our own personal growth. This kind of growth is not about added pounds, but about betterment. It is what we might call evolutionary or developmental, or type 2 growth. It’s about using the same ingredients in better ways. Over time evolution arranges the same number of atoms in more complex patterns to yield more complex organisms, for instance producing an agile lemur the same size and weight as a jelly fish. We seek the same shift in the technium. Standard economic growth aims to get consumers to drink more wine. Type 2 growth aims to get them to not drink more wine, but better wine. ]]> progress technology kevin_kelly growth quotes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:f9347feda0dd/ Nelson's Weblog: tech / passkey-authenticators-for-consumers-may-2023 2023-05-19T22:29:28+00:00 https://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/passkey-authenticators-for-consumers-may-2023.html earth2marshPasskeys work a lot like passwords do today. You create a different passkey for each website and use it to log in. Your passkeys are stored in what’s called a “Passkey Authenticator”, agent software on your computer. (Behind the scenes passkeys use public key systems that are better than passwords.) Your phone probably works today as a passkey authenticator but most sites don’t support passkeys yet. Managing passkeys — backing up, migrating, sharing passkeys between devices — is still a work in progress. Android and Apple both support syncing passkeys between devices, that’s important so you can log in even if you don’t have your phone with you. Some software can also delegate. For instance Chrome on Windows will use Bluetooth to use a passkey on a nearby Android phone. ]]> passkeys technology tech explainer howto https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:8bb3e786226e/ SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack | WIRED 2023-05-02T18:35:39+00:00 https://www.wired.com/story/the-untold-story-of-solarwinds-the-boldest-supply-chain-hack-ever/ earth2marshtechnology hacking breaches security software supplychain https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:c8549b756baa/ Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry 2022-12-17T00:24:20+00:00 https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/ earth2marshArgues that the Industrial Revolution could only have happened in late 18th-century Britain because of a very specific set of contingent events: the centuries-long arms race for the best cannon led to pressure-resistant cylinders, which enabled nascent piston steam engines; steam power found a killer app of pumping water out of coal mines; and it happened to be easy to run steam engines on coal, leading to a virtuous cycle of efficiency improvements until the steam engine was finally good enough for use in textile production (which, serendipitously, was also centered in Great Britain).]]> technology economics history progress https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:d78d3faa1fb3/ An Interview with Eugene Wei About Streaming and Social Media – Stratechery by Ben Thompson 2022-11-08T19:49:20+00:00 https://stratechery.com/2022/an-interview-with-eugene-wei-about-streaming-and-social-media/?access_token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6InN0cmF0ZWNoZXJ5LnBhc3Nwb3J0Lm9ubGluZSIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJzdHJhdGVjaGVyeS5wYXNzcG9ydC5vbmxpbmUiLCJlbnQiOnsidXJpIjpbImh0dHBzOi8vc3RyYXRlY2hlcnkuY29tLzIwMjIvYW4taW50ZXJ2aWV3LXdpdGgtZXVnZW5lLXdlaS1hYm91dC1zdHJlYW1pbmctYW5kLXNvY2lhbC1tZWRpYS8iXX0sImV4cCI6MTY3MDA2NjI1NSwiaWF0IjoxNjY3NDc0MjU1LCJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL3N0cmF0ZWNoZXJ5LnBhc3Nwb3J0Lm9ubGluZS9vYXV0aCIsInNjb3BlIjoiZmVlZDpyZWFkIGFydGljbGU6cmVhZCBhc3NldDpyZWFkIGNhdGVnb3J5OnJlYWQiLCJzdWIiOiJFUnBEZHpQemFzTkY0S0xSNFlHTnJOIiwidXNlIjoiYWNjZXNzIn0.cAUwfPcnX-JoTaj4cwqmcbJwCNQqVEvoeGnUaxd-EdjKkWb1ABxsF-8o3ZoZ192iSiJxil22QzQgC8GADkY-ddlyrYEvGJaCPpPE5OGC20reE0PAsrB4llANriMUPzy138mk3ZeSoGAGvikQKJQquSWR13m17Xx6MC33mHG10jIUvo6CMuiAtDYe6DRjDV6vBAgUSo3yTImld4sn-zmYq6jpdD-52PE90-t52k6nJzAX5fN2l4eVFSa9IlzTnHEcPGC5ZX2cSt5gWL8sNSFNC7XR5_QfwMa7gFPesXfMnfQGfPtVyde6RkNDODyvES1hPCyxV5itk6BO0wjYy4fgOw earth2marshOne of my favorite quotes is from the sociobiologist E.O. Wilson. He wrote this a while ago. He said something like, the chief problem of modernity is that we have godlike technology, medieval institutions and paleolithic emotions. Something to that effect.]]> quotes society interviews twitter streaming productmanagement technology emotions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:85e5d83aa47c/ The Deployment Age | Reaction Wheel 2022-08-12T06:58:20+00:00 https://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html earth2marsh economics technology systems deployment trends innovation cycles theory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:dd8f316e1538/ How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces | On the Media | WNYC Studios 2022-05-13T18:51:40+00:00 https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/social-media-urban-planning-on-the-media earth2marsh podcast community technology libraries parks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:3add357e0c70/ What Was the TED Talk? - The Drift 2022-03-19T19:26:25+00:00 https://www.thedriftmag.com/what-was-the-ted-talk/ earth2marsh culture technology criticism TED futurism https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:f890a3f3f598/ Technological improvement rate predictions for all technologies: Use of patent data and an extended domain description | technologyrates 2021-12-05T22:39:53+00:00 http://technologyrates.mit.edu/ earth2marsh technology future improvements progress https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:a0597868a344/ Kardashev scale - Wikipedia 2021-12-05T22:09:54+00:00 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale earth2marsh interesting civilization energy technology computation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:103c0bb74006/ The Deployment Age | Reaction Wheel 2021-10-15T00:52:24+00:00 http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html earth2marsh technology business history economics revolutions shifts https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:b858673479ec/ The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions – Stratechery by Ben Thompson 2021-10-15T00:51:46+00:00 https://stratechery.com/2021/the-death-and-birth-of-technological-revolutions/ earth2marsh technology revolutions change economics business shifts https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:223955a48304/ snails cheese Jesus underwear and spectacles impact on writing 2021-09-17T15:56:15+00:00 https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1434803410902167552?s=09 earth2marshhistory technology writing alphabet civilization culture cheese paper printing https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:f72bca857c73/ Technology Aphorisms 2020-08-21T00:33:09+00:00 https://matthewreinbold.com/2020/08/03/Technology-Aphorisms/ earth2marsh technology laws aphorisms quotes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:fc4d823c155f/ How to Be a Remarkable Innovator - Guy Kawasaki 2020-08-03T22:33:58+00:00 https://guykawasaki.com/remarkable-innovator/ earth2marsh innovation technology examples https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:461737ac643e/ Hearables Will Monitor Your Brain and Body to Augment Your Life - IEEE Spectrum 2019-05-08T06:13:36+00:00 https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/hearables-will-monitor-your-brain-and-body-to-augment-your-life earth2marsh technology hearing future ears https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:34e4c8323e2e/ What Happened to the 100,000-Hour LED Bulbs? | Hackaday 2019-02-06T02:07:03+00:00 https://hackaday.com/2019/02/05/what-happened-to-the-100000-hour-led-bulbs/ earth2marsh led technology lighting bulbs lifetime https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:a5ab5e2b0e95/ The truth about Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018-12-11T20:56:56+00:00 https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-truth-about-black-friday-and-cyber-monday/ earth2marshtechnology blackfriday shopping trends cloudflare analysis retail https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:b4ed702d8e4c/ The Tech Industry’s Psychological War on Kids – Richard Freed – Medium 2018-08-13T19:25:12+00:00 https://medium.com/@richardnfreed/the-tech-industrys-psychological-war-on-kids-c452870464ce earth2marshchildren psychology technology addiction persuasion design https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:9a0b6112fae0/ Why + How My Acqui-hire Failed (And What You Can Learn) 2018-06-23T00:11:50+00:00 https://www.atrium.co/blog/acquihire-how-to/ earth2marsh acquisitions tech technology companies talent https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:389b5778e589/ The Tale of Tom, Dick and Harry | Phil Sturgeon 2018-01-02T20:17:26+00:00 https://philsturgeon.uk/2014/05/07/the-tale-of-tom-dick-and-harry/ earth2marsh technology trends personalities fashion https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:411062003adc/ Nanoleaf: Lighting that's Smarter by Design. : Nanoleaf.me 2017-05-18T01:22:52+00:00 https://nanoleaf.me/en/ earth2marsh lighting hardware technology triangle lights apimixtape https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:61b8e10d6a48/ [untitled] 2017-03-09T22:27:43+00:00 https://www.uni.illinois.edu/resources/forms/Agora_Days_Handbook.pdf earth2marsh agora learning company culture technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:9157d8579538/ Time Well Spent 2017-01-04T19:49:08+00:00 http://www.timewellspent.io/ earth2marsh design technology time distractions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:5968f70726f5/ Web Design - The First 100 Years 2016-10-14T15:43:54+00:00 http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm earth2marsh technology history design internet article culture future https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:20dd1b934047/ What’s Next in Computing? — Software Is Eating the World — Medium 2016-06-27T16:25:00+00:00 https://medium.com/software-is-eating-the-world/what-s-next-in-computing-e54b870b80cc#.6v2y0e2ze earth2marsh future technology trends vr https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:119658038935/ Urbit overview - /posts/overview 2016-06-02T17:10:24+00:00 https://urbit.org/posts/overview/ earth2marsh server data cloud utopia utopianism technology personal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:fce6738e43f1/ The Internet Really Has Changed Everything. Here’s the Proof. — Backchannel 2016-05-05T23:40:35+00:00 https://backchannel.com/the-internet-really-has-changed-everything-here-s-the-proof-928eaead18a8 earth2marsh culture technology change midwest isolation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:5cba1d3d36e3/ (8) Which are the companies where the culture is driven by product managers? - Quora 2016-05-05T23:03:23+00:00 https://www.quora.com/Which-are-the-companies-where-the-culture-is-driven-by-product-managers earth2marsh product management culture technology productmanagement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:32af858ee59d/ Demos of open web technologies | MDN 2016-05-05T22:48:59+00:00 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Demos_of_open_web_technologies earth2marsh html demonstrations mozilla examples technology webdev web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:126203f78d58/ The best is the last — Benedict Evans 2016-04-21T15:24:41+00:00 http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/4/20/the-best-is-the-last earth2marsh technology history planes pistons curves ships sailing steam https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:4cef79d26921/ Tech’s Lost Chapter: An Oral History of Boston’s Rise and Fall, Part One | Re/code 2015-12-21T08:45:11+00:00 http://recode.net/2014/12/09/techs-lost-chapter-an-oral-history-of-bostons-rise-and-fall-part-one/ earth2marshiftttFeedly boston startups technology history https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:10533d932efe/ good work code 2015-11-16T16:50:52+00:00 http://www.goodworkcode.org/ earth2marshsocialgood programming technology policy work https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:34e5a82029f6/ Nobody Loves Graphite Anymore - VividCortex 2015-11-06T06:28:12+00:00 https://www.vividcortex.com/blog/2015/11/05/nobody-loves-graphite-anymore/ earth2marshiftttFeedly graphite metrics technology trends https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:4b75bbc527fa/ A photographer edits out our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world - Quartz 2015-10-15T05:35:20+00:00 http://qz.com/523746/a-photographer-edits-out-our-smartphones-to-show-our-strange-and-lonely-new-world/ earth2marshculture life art tech mobile technology photography removed social commentary https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:7ecfe9de7891/ Police secretly track cellphones to solve routine crimes 2015-08-24T22:16:21+00:00 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/08/23/baltimore-police-stingray-cell-surveillance/31994181/ earth2marsh iftttFeedly privacy police technology power abuse crime phones tracking https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:a4c3fc0b66e6/ Goodbye, SaaS -- hello, Containers-as-a-Service | VentureBeat | Enterprise | by Peter Yared, Sapho 2015-05-12T15:56:25+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/09/goodbye-saas-hello-containers-as-a-service/ earth2marshbusiness technology SaaS containers trends https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:d3a2853e82d3/ HTTP/2: the Future of the Internet | Akamai 2015-03-25T22:52:07+00:00 https://http2.akamai.com/demo earth2marsh technology demo benefits visualization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:824ba09160b2/ It’s Not About Creating Another Silicon Valley But Preventing Another Motor City | TechCrunch 2014-09-18T15:13:08+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/17/entrepreneurial-ecosystem-global-lessons-its-not-about-creating-another-silicon-valley-but-preventing-another-motor-city/ earth2marshentrepreneurship entrepreneurs technology Detroit https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:1e4f12f3b8c2/ Gregory’s iPhone Contract | Janell Burley Hofmann 2014-08-28T05:20:25+00:00 http://www.janellburleyhofmann.com/postjournal/gregorys-iphone-contract/ earth2marshphone parenting contract technology https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:951af4a7130b/ Taking an active role in our kids' digital lives - Boing Boing 2014-08-28T05:18:40+00:00 http://boingboing.net/2014/08/26/taking-an-active-role-in-our-k.html earth2marshparenting technology internet kids https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:fa77c29aceed/ The Fasinatng … Frustrating … Fascinating History of Autocorrect | Gadget Lab | WIRED 2014-07-26T23:17:44+00:00 http://www.wired.com/2014/07/history-of-autocorrect/ earth2marshautocorrect history technology https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:3fe85df1a890/ Categorizing technologies | 2014-05-21T15:01:21+00:00 http://www.asymco.com/2014/05/19/categorizing-technologies/ earth2marsh disruption technology technologies innovation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:431b8ad1f640/ This is what 3D printed wood looks like — Tech News and Analysis 2014-03-08T16:16:46+00:00 http://gigaom.com/2014/02/25/this-is-what-3d-printed-wood-looks-like/ earth2marsh 3d printing wood technology smart https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:b5f26da384cc/ This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes | Elite Daily 2014-03-07T08:08:36+00:00 http://elitedaily.com/news/technology/this-insane-new-app-will-allow-you-to-read-novels-in-under-90-minutes/ earth2marsh reading technology app speed https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:01924efc6cf2/ KPCB Internet Trends 2013 2013-05-29T23:08:24+00:00 http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trends-2013 earth2marsh trends internet technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:be5f46a489e5/ Teaching 21st Century Students by Kevin Roberts on Prezi 2013-03-06T18:27:24+00:00 http://prezi.com/gx6ycgphlszm/teaching-21st-century-students/ earth2marsh education tools technology meaning engagement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:e35d54359c1b/ To understand the command line... 2012-10-22T21:40:31+00:00 http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2012/09/30/to-understand-the-command-line earth2marsh cli unix history linux technology layers evolution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:33c3d970a2e7/ Skype Projections and Family Reunions - Slide Show - NYTimes.com 2012-06-21T15:50:58+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/03/magazine/skype-portraits.html earth2marsh portraits Skype nytimes reunions technology family https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:56a984871e44/