Tag: thesis

• For the entire 20th century, it had felt like telepathy was just around the corner. Why is that especially true now?

  June 23, 2024

  Telepathy might initially seem a much softer, psychological proposition, tainted with a sense of the supernatural. Yet both Campbell and Clarke were lifelong advocates of the view that telepathy was… more ›

• Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived

  March 11, 2019

  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires’ list released this week. With an estimated fortune of $131bn (£99bn) he is… more ›

• The Future of Computing Is Analog

  March 5, 2019

  The next revolution in computing will be signaled by the rise of analog systems over which digital programming no longer has control. https://onezero.medium.com/the-future-of-computing-is-analog-e758471fbfe1 more ›

• The Spirituality of Africa

  February 22, 2019

  One of Jacob Olupona’s earliest memories in Massachusetts is of nearly freezing in his apartment as a graduate student at Boston University during the great snowstorm of 1978. “I had… more ›

• Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science

  January 19, 2019

  In the summer of 1996, during an international anthropology conference in southeastern Brazil, Bruno Latour, France’s most famous and misunderstood philosopher, was approached by an anxious-looking developmental psychologist. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-post-truth-philosopher-science.html more ›

• The Poesis of Mimesis in Les Maîtres Fous: Looking Back at the Conspiratorial Ethnography of Jean Rouch

  January 3, 2019

  While on a surface level the film recounts an African possession ritual which critically burlesques colonialism, many viewers found it to have a colonialist perspective, exoticising “primitive” practices and reinforcing… more ›

• Ikhwân al-Safâ’

  January 3, 2019

  The Ikhwân al-Safâ’ or “Brethren of Purity”, as their name is commonly translated, are the authors of one of the most complete Medieval encyclopedias of sciences, antecedent at least two… more ›

• 16 Ways to Measure Network Effects

  December 18, 2018

  16 Ways to Measure Network Effects Network effects are one of the most important dynamics in software and marketplace businesses. But they’re often spoken of in a binary way: either… more ›

• The Friendship That Made Google Huge

  December 4, 2018

  The Friendship That Made Google Huge One day in March of 2000, six of Google’s best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of… more ›

• Reality has a surprising amount of detail

  November 24, 2018

  Reality has a surprising amount of detail My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I… more ›