The unsung hero of music production, Burgess has been there or thereabouts in just about every major innovation of the last 50 years…
"Last night I got an email from someone who said 'I'm 46, is it okay to start producing music?' I said 'yes, start now!'": How a 67-year-old pensioner went viral performing industrial techno at home
What started as a post-retirement hobby has led The Last DJ to runaway success and his first gig in 40 years. Now he's on a mission to inspire others to do the same
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.
Matt Webb
I have worked with some of the world’s largest firms on design-led product invention using new technology for over 20 years. I was MD of two London startup accelerators with R/GA Ventures, and co-founder and CEO of pioneering design studio BERG, where we shipped connected products and got work into the New York MoMA.
The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution
JAMES W. CAREY, JOHN J. QUIRK, The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution, The American Scholar, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Summer, 1970), pp. 395-424
Graham Fleming | Software & Hardware Engineer
The Human Co-Pilot for Early-Stage Founders. Expert software & hardware engineer specializing in Next.js, AI integration, scaling infrastructure, and fixing tech debt.
Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer
How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.
The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution
JAMES W. CAREY, JOHN J. QUIRK, The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution, The American Scholar, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring, 1970), pp. 219-241
The Knowledge Ecology
The important thing here is that the music is not in the piano. And knowledge and edification is not in the computer. The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. Yes? No? Yes-no-yes-no-yes-no.
Has AI Changed Work Forever? Not Really... | Cal Newport
Stuart K. Card and Thomas P. Moran, "User Technology—From Pointing to Pondering"
Jeff Mills Drifts Into the Cosmos
AI is the latest of a long succession of tools trying to make things easier for us, and it’s always been there, and it’s always affected the music. Maybe we didn’t fear as much, but musicians just have to be more creative and to be more elusive.
Lessons Answer.AI can learn from history’s greatest R&D labs
Today’s piece was put together with the help of several conversations with Answer.AI co-founder Jeremy Howard.
Visionary lays into the web
Ted Nelson is a visionary who is credited with coining the term hypertext, but he is highly critical of what the internet has become.
BBS: The Documentary
Resonant Computing Lab
A movement is quietly gaining momentum. For some time, the Resonant Computing Manifesto circulated among a small circle of technologists and thinkers. Within days of going public, more than 1,200 signatories—including Alan Kay, Peter Wang, Tim O'Reilly, Kevin Kelly and Esther Dyson—joined the call for software that serves human agency.