Stephen Fleming's blog about academia, venture capital, and spaceships
iPhone 4 pictures taken from the same position in a hotel ballroom, before and after attaching the lens. Click to embiggen. (This is Gov. Perdue of North Carolina speaking at the Southern Growth Policy Board; confusing, because we had our own Gov. Perdue in Georgia until six months ago!) Standard iPhone 4 photo With PhotoJojo … [Read more...]
One of the changes the world is getting used to with Twitter, YouTube, and ubiquitous cameraphones is that one person's experiences can be shared with the entire world, immediately, and unfiltered. … [Read more...]
Shuttle design was finalized 40 years ago. 40 years before THAT (1931), this Tiger Moth was state-of-the-art. We can do better. … [Read more...]
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." – William Gibson, science fiction writer Those of us who grew up on The Jetsons may feel cheated. It's the 21st century, and we don't have flying cars, or Moon vacations, or Rosie the Robot cooking our meals. … [Read more...]
While searching for something else in my boxes of decaying paper files recently, I ran across a couple of articles I wrote for publication in 1987/88. … [Read more...]
While searching for something else in my boxes of decaying paper files recently, I ran across a couple of articles I wrote for publication in 1987/88. … [Read more...]
My post here has led to some interesting email exchanges. I'm reposting one of them here, which was triggered by someone criticizing the Chevy Volt as "just another hybrid" instead of a "real" electric car. … [Read more...]
@pfreet Coincidence: I'm in Walt's lab right now! via twittelator … [Read more...]
You know what puzzles me? I live in the ideal demographic for the Chevy Volt: Midtown Atlanta, very environmentally conscious, lots of people who choose to live close to their jobs (Georgia Tech, Emory, CDC are all represented on my street), and lousy public transport. So a zero-local-emissions car with very limited range would actually fit … [Read more...]
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