
25 2025 July
The U.S. Postal Service Turns 250—So Let’s Celebrate the Innovations They Have Given the World
For over 100 years in the early days of the U.S. Postal Service, the way mail would get sent from small towns involved a crazy...
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23 2025 July
How One Longtime Brand Fan Is Bringing Back the Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 is back! Appealing to grown-up geeks and younger technophiles alike, the computer aims to offer a “simpler, distraction-free computing experience” and suggests...
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13 2025 June
The Secret of Optimism and the New Peruvian Airport
Earlier this week when I arrived in Lima, it was in their brand new airport that is less than two weeks old. People in the city had...
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16 2025 May
Why 3D Fixables Could Create an Entirely New Sustainable Industry
Philips is beta testing a new platform that allows consumers to 3D print a replacement accessory for one of their electric shavers. Right now, it’s just one...
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06 2025 May
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann
Imagine a future where an algorithm reads everything from your facial expressions during an interview to everything you have ever shared on social media in...
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24 2025 April
The Complex Reality of “Girlbosses” In Space
This week the first all-female crew for a “manned” spaceflight headed to space—for ten minutes—on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. One of the passengers was...
Read Now18 2025 April
3 Powerful Talks from TED This Week That Are Already Available Live to Watch
The TED conference took place this past week and some of the talks have already been released. While most of the year the TED social...
Read Now16 2025 April
The Beautiful and Destructive Potential of Using VR on Prisoners in Jail
This week there were a few stories of questionably ethical uses for virtual reality headsets that raised some new questions about how it can and...
Read Now10 2025 April
The Backstory of How Dubai’s Museum of the Future Was Imagined Is Worth Reading
Thirty percent of the visitors to the Museum of the Future in Dubai have never been to a museum before. That’s just one of the...
Read Now27 2025 March
Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant Is Exactly What Anyone in Business Really Needs
This past month Adobe launched a super useful enhancement that I’ve been testing it for a bit. The Adobe AI Assistant has a number of...
Read Now20 2025 March
Unnecessary Enhancement and the Upscaling Backlash Against Netflix
What if everything doesn’t need to be better? A series of 80s shows originally released at a 4:3 aspect ratio and with non-HD level filming have been...
Read Now05 2025 March
The Subtle Master Plan Behind De Beers New DiamondProof In-Store Verification Device
A little over six months ago, De Beers Group announced the DiamondProof “diamond verification instrument” at a jewelry trade show in Las Vegas. The idea was that...
Read Now19 2025 February
The Secret of Startup Success Might Be Who Is Willing to Lose Money the Longest
Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, Uber … all dominant players in their industry. What if the secret to their success is just that they were all willing...
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