Tag Archives: Technology
Misplaced Faith in the Power of Inventions
From “Why our ‘amazing’ science fiction future fizzled” by John Blake (emphasis mine):
Even then [19th-century], people had a misplaced faith in the power of inventions to make life easier, Corn [Joseph Corn, co-author of “Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Also tagged Change, Easier, Energy, Faith, Invention, Productivity, Sociology, Time
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Happy Birthday GNU!
The GNU Project is 25 years young! And Richard Stallman and crew are working as hard as ever. Thank you!
The GNU Project is most famous for it’s versions of UNIX utilities and the GPL family of licenses. But whatever you … Continue reading
Posted in GPL, Open Source
Also tagged Free Software Foundation, freedom, GNU Project, GPL, Open Source, Richard Stallman, Software
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