Yep, that’s it. The very first world wide web server, used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. Notice the large “DO NOT POWER DOWN!” sticker on the bottom of the machine. Thankfully, no one has touched that power button. Yet. Thanks to ArsTechnica for...
Greetings Starfighters, I’m sorting through my feelings about kids, social media, smartphones in schools, and dopamine. There’s quite a growing roar online about the time kids spend on social media and the number of notifications they get during the school day. Of...
Aaron Sorkin Is Writing Some Kind of ‘Social Network’ Sequel Because ‘I Blame Facebook For January 6’ Riot at the U.S. Capitol The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right. Shaping the Future of Learning: The Role of AI in Education 4.0...
What happens when you give kids support and an open playground? Austin Kleon’s son, Owen, dropped his latest SoundCloud album. He’s 11. My favorite track, Typing, is embedded here. It’s a banger of creativity. And heavily influenced by Kraftwerk and...
The premise for the first Star Trek film featuring the original series cast proposes that a probe from Earth, Voyager 6, traveled so far and accumulated so much information as it traveled the cosmos that it achieved sentience. And when it did, it wanted to return to...
