Tinkering Published on June 18, 2024June 16, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com Radio sets and Perl Playing around can be unexpectedly useful. Read More
Convenience rules Published on April 4, 2023April 3, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com Driving technological change Read More
Monoglot music Published on September 27, 2022September 26, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com Not about sukiyaki What does an old song say about its times? Read More
Morse code Published on January 5, 2021January 3, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com High-speed digital communication The telegraph required a new way of writing messages. Read More
An audio culture Published on November 17, 2020November 16, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com The book, the movie and the radio play We ponder how the medium affects the story. Read More
Disaster this time? Published on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com Threatening technology New technology has been forecast to bring social disaster several times in the past. We seem to have avoided it; but that doesn’t mean we always will. Read More
The lovers’ lodestone Published on March 7, 2017March 5, 2017 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com A prehistory of wireless telegraphy It was much more difficult to stay in touch 300 years ago. A literary magazine from that era has a suggestion for a surprisingly modern way to do it. Read More