This Month In the History of Information Technologies

Storing Information

On paper, online

Oct 1 • 

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September 2025

Too Much Information?

Storage, selection, search, slop

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

The Life and Times of Maps

Finding our place in the world

Aug 3 • 

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July 2025

A Persistent Human Hallucination

The stubborn belief that faster production and transmission of information brings global peace

Jul 1 • 

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June 2025

On the Selling of Ideas

The marketing of AI

Jun 1 • 

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May 2025

Librarians Against the Machine

Is ChatGPT today’s incarnation of EMERAC?

May 1 • 

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April 2025

Modern Computing Or Killer AI?

The enduring power of lively human imagination

Apr 1 • 

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March 2025

The Impact of Technology on Jobs

From automated knitting to augmented intelligence or AI

Mar 1 • 

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February 2025

Creating a Space

For all the useful and useless information

Feb 1 • 

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January 2025

The Machine of Our Times

The past and present of automation, augmentation, and “democratization”

Jan 1 • 

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December 2024

1960s Googling

What used to be Information Retrieval

Dec 31, 2024 • 

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Live in HD

“Event Cinema” industry born

Dec 30, 2024 • 

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