by Richard Polt | Jan 10, 2026 | future
A post by Scott K. alerted me to this amazing project by Keenan Finucan on Thingiverse. If it really works, it is the first realization of a new age of typewriter production using 21st-century technology, as I imagined in the last chapter of The...
by Richard Polt | Jan 3, 2014 | future, Insurgency
This is a bit more political than usual, but I hope it’s at a level of abstraction that will forestall any partisan reactions.
by Richard Polt | Jun 6, 2013 | future, self-reliance
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was a great American mathematician and pioneering computer scientist who coined the word “cybernetics,” meaning the science of communication and control in animals and machines. In his book Cybernetics (1948) and the more...
by Richard Polt | Mar 18, 2013 | future, Insurgency, self-reliance
by Richard Polt | Jan 21, 2013 | future
Excuse the mess … this is a first draft.
