Cars That Think
JULY 21, 2021
On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. So your book takes on a much broader topic, the datafication of our daily lives and the human rights implications of that phenomenon. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.
Baua Electric
APRIL 8, 2024
Over the last few weeks, Ola has rolled out the subscription model for its auto-rickshaw drivers in some top markets including Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, while Uber has launched the same in six cities starting with Chennai, Kochi and Visakhapatnam, a person aware of the matter said.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 27, 2023
Fouché says the most interesting discovery he made during the five years he spent researching the book was “how shrewd, and careful, and savvy these black inventors were. I think Woods clearly recognized ‘No, I’m the smartest person in the room. I think Woods clearly recognized ‘No, I’m the smartest person in the room.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
I did a lot of reading and studying on where computers might be used and where they could go wrong, as well as reading science-fiction books that explored those possibilities,” he says. Fast forward to today, and looking at any major system in use, no person alive can do the same thing. Spafford wrote the first papers on the topic.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 10, 2023
This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew.
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