Monthly Archives: September 2016

Tesla on the World Brain

Posted on September 30, 2016 by GilPress

In 1904, Tesla, determined to see his idea come to fruition, wrote with absolute certainty that “when wireless is fully applied, the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.” Source: … Continue reading →

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Self-Driving Cars Just Around the Corner: 1958, 1969 and 2016

Posted on September 14, 2016 by GilPress

IEEE Spectrum: (also here and here) In the late 1950s, the Radio Corporation of America thought it had a lock on the self-driving car. The January 1958 issue of Electronic Age, RCA’s quarterly magazine, featured its vision of the “highway … Continue reading →

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The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors

Posted on September 3, 2016 by GilPress

  You thought it started with the Intel 4004, but the tale is more complicated By Ken Shirriff Posted 30 Aug 2016 Transistors, the electronic amplifiers and switches found at the heart of everything from pocket radios to warehouse-size supercomputers, … Continue reading →

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