Category Archives: Technology

The 10 Stupidest Tech Company Blunders

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Tarun Rattan

1. Yahoo Loses Facebook In 2006, Facebook was a two-year-old social network that most people thought of as a digital playground for Ivy League brats. In the world of social networks, MySpace’s 100 million members totally swamped Facebook’s 8 million. … Continue reading →

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Getting connected: a history of modems By Tamsin Oxford

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Tarun Rattan

  The world’s first PC modem Since AT&T had dominion over electrically coupled modems, acoustically coupled modems such as this Novation CAT were the alternative for consumers Lorax Their arrival heralded a new age of communications and they played a … Continue reading →

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Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Tarun Rattan

  Throughout history man has been making predictions of the future. With the advent of technology, the predictions moved away from religious topics to scientific and technological. Unfortunately for the speakers, many of these failed predictions have been recorded for … Continue reading →

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Inventing The History Of Invention by Arthur P. Molella

Posted on January 5, 1988 by Tarun Rattan

Three Big Thinkers Who Placed Technology at the Heart of History THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY WAS Officially born in the United States in 1958, when the Society for the History of Technology was established. But long before the subject donned … Continue reading →

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Mathematics In The Natural Sciences by Eugene Wigner

Posted on February 1, 1960 by Tarun Rattan

  Reprinted from Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 13, No. I (February 1960). New York:John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright © 1960 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty … Continue reading →

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