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NASDAQ Ends Above 5000 for First Time Since Dot-Com Era
nasdaq-5000-03-09-2000 Wall Street Journal: The Nasdaq’s march back up to 5000 has been slow but steady, driven by growth in earnings and dividend payments of its companies. Although the index’s rise is nowhere near as rapid as it was in … Continue reading
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A Brief Visual History of American Innovations
In a series of papers studying the history of American innovation, Packalen and Bhattacharya indexed every one-word, two-word, and three-word phrase that appeared in more than 4 million patent texts in the last 175 years. To focus their … Continue reading
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Google Maps Mapping the World 2005-2015
Liz Gannes in re/code: Ten years ago today, Google Maps launched to the world. When it was born, it was a paper atlas in living form, with no pages to turn. Instead of online mapping leader MapQuest’s printable list of … Continue reading
Posted in Digitization, Google, Maps
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The idea of a computer you could put in your pocket was just science fiction
1982 advertisement for the TRS-80 Pocket Computer with Isaac Asimov.
Posted in Computer history, Mobile, PCs
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Remembrances of Things Past
When Shannon was a river and Turing was a car When Banyan was a tree and buses travelled far dBase was where you ran to after you hit the ball Often we were ANSI RISC aversive not at all Windows … Continue reading
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It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future (Infographic)
by antoniodivico.
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The High Cost of Multitasking (Infographic)
by kikikarpus.
Posted in Infographics, Social Impact
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