Monthly Archives: April 2008

The eye-Phone: Reality is (almost) cooler than fiction

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Jack Henderson

I’ll get to the eye-Phone in just a minute, after a bit of context. The series of books that I’m in the middle of writing all take place in the first 5 years of the 21st century. For you and … Continue reading →

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The fastest processor on Earth: 1871 vs. 2008

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Jack Henderson

A few minutes after I’d read the announcement that IBM is now shipping a five-billion-instructions-per-second processor, I noticed another story about computing that I thought you might find interesting in contrast. Charles Babbage died in 1871, having designed but never … Continue reading →

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DARPA: 50 years of radical innovation

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Jack Henderson

from Stephen Barr, for The Washington Post Small and secretive, DARPA has compiled a number of impressive achievements in the past 50 years. It pulled together researchers who created the blueprint for the Internet. It sponsored the inventor of the … Continue reading →

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