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The history of computing told through J.C.R. Licklider, the MIT psychologist who in 1962, from a Pentagon office, began funding the time-sharing, networking and interactive-computing research that became the ARPANET and the personal computer. Waldrop shows the PC was an idea about human–machine partnership decades before it was a product, and introduces the people who had it.
July 20, 2026
Dynomight on the coming end of pseudonymity, Brian Potter scores 239 laws against their promises, and a Sears-catalog rewrite of American growth.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
April 6, 2026
AI Snake Oil on scaling myths, Import AI on 100K training runs, and Tyler Cowen finds AI in the productivity statistics for real this time.
