The people who built the future, in their own words. Oral history interviews from the Computer History Museum, enriched with AI-generated context, visuals, and connections.
A People’s History of Tech
A collective storytelling project to build a more representative history that reflects the human impacts of technology.
Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest post features an interview with William Gunn discussing how AI will (or won't!) change the future of reference management tools.
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test
The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI
Why verification, not prompting, could shape the next decade of engineering
Humanities in the Machine - Blain Smith
There is something quietly remarkable about the people who built the foundations of modern computing. Not their technical achievements, though those are extraordinary. What is remarkable is where they came from before they ever touched a machine.
Digital Art Enters the Museum Age — Social Software
We explore code and systems as a medium for creating new forms of art. We consider "software" in an expanded sense, examining the ways that we are programmed by technology around us and the ways we can write software to make change in the world.
A pocket full of personal software - Bailey's Retrospective
A year-ish spent building software I want, the way I want with *in a low voice* llms
The End of Software
To understand how software will change, we can benefit from studying how technology has changed other industries. History tends to rhyme, if you listen. Before the internet, media behaved very differently—it was expensive to create. You had to pay people to make content, edit it, and distribute ...
The Future Is Not Tech-Forward
On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.
Illustration of Harvard Mark III | Mastering the Game | Computer History Museum
FF26 – This is not the tech I signed up for! – An approach to permacomputing - Darío Gutiérrez Mori
AI and the future(s) of [insert domain here]
Lessons from Tech History
Learning from those who built before us
Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces
Burnout in Open Source (by Erlend Sogge Heggen) — Semble
Linux distributions worldwide targeted by the Copy Fail exploit
GitHub Alternatives (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Death of GitHub? (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Before GitHub
Cohere + Aleph Alpha — sovereign AI's first $20B deal (by Sensemaker) — Semble