Austin, TX: Progress & Nostalgia
I'm in Austin over the 4th of July weekend to visit family. Every time I come back to Texas I have incredibly mixed feelings about how this town
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Newsletter
Weekly resources about our rapidly evolving cyborganic relationship with technology. Topics include humanity inside computers, technology culture, digital artifacts, and augmented productivity for 21st-century knowledge work.
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100 Days and a Restart
Today we launched a new MIT Museum website, and started our 100 day countdown to the opening of the Museum in its new building at Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA
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That New Computer Smell
Computational nostalgia haunts me. I have become the vintage computer, to be sold off at a garage sale.
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Anything but NFTs
Thank you for all the outpouring of kind words for my newsletter last week. It was a huge catharsis to write it, and I was so touched that it seemed
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The Grief Multiplier and Gratitude
Thank you for the overwhelming feedback on this essay. I had a couple of good cries while writing it and I'm crying as I read all of your
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"Happy" New Year? If you say so.
Hello friend, Uhhhmmm… Happy New Year? This week, we watched unprecedented events unfold at the United States Capitol, and as I am writing this, we don’t know how many
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Patience
There's something about December that sends me into a frenzy of trying to wrap up projects as if I'm trying to make up for not being
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The Show Must Go On(line)
I have a confession. Somewhere in middle of Act II of Hamilton, I think between "The Adams Administration" and "We Know," I fell fast asleep. This
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Choose Your Own Adventure
Hello friend, Due to my choices, I died many, many times when I was a child. Luckily, I kept my fingers inside the pages and could always undo my mistakes.
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Bricolage 002
Hello friend, This is another Bricolage episode of the newsletter. From the first Bricolage: I made a plan for weeks like this, where an extended essay on a single theme
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Election Day 2020
Hello friend, Today is Election Day in the United States in the middle of a pandemic. Citizens will participate in a presidential election that will be a crucible for the
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Aboard the Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5), Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 30,000 feet above the moon surface and rapidly descending. It was July 24, 1969, and The Apollo
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