We will look at three technology disruptions that occurred one each in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. This is technology broadly construed, not information technology alone. For each disruption, it happened relatively quickly, order of 10 years for the first one and sped up a little for the latter two. We will see what […]
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Where is my Flying Car, or Why we miss Technology Deadlines
Citation The flying car has become a cliche in how a technology promise was not kept. Flying cars were quite a common prop in movies in the 1950’s and 60’s with the implicit promise that they were around the corner. And if you are the kind that follows tech news obsessively and have a great […]
Distant Whispers from an Academic Engineer's World 