Brian Malow on Edison, Cell Phones, Vista…

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

An excerpt from “The Final Frontier?” presentation I gave at the Marian Koshland Science Museum, in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2008.

Mostly about cell phones, but a bit about Thomas Edison and the light bulb, Las Vegas, Windows Vista, and cost-benefits analysis.

More to come…

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Neal Stephenson on Jupiter Envy

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

“For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter’s is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you’re trying to breathe liquid methane.”

- Neal Stephenson

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