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Energy from the Sea

28 Years Ago in TR: “Massive ocean thermal energy conversion plants may be turning this heat to usable electricity by 1985.” – William F. Whitmore

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The Shrinkage Solution

Wherein a pair of MIT civil engineers proposed a novel way to lessen our environmental impact.

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Web 0.1

Before the Internet, there was videotex.

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A Dream in the Desert

An architect’s quixotic but enduring quest to change the way we live

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Sign of the Times

A year before the oil shock, a geologist wrote of the coming energy crises.

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The Privilege of Being Wrong

Then and now, we face the problem of determining what is true.

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The Trouble with Software

Revisting the software business flaws Charles C. Mann depicted five years ago.

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Automation Sets Us Free

A 1929 essay by Arthur D. Little argued that workers and consumers would benefit from more mass production, not less.

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Churchill's Warning

In a 1949 address published in Technology Review and excerpted here, Winston Churchill said new technologies create problems even as they solve others.

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81 Years Ago

The fear that our devices are somehow altering our brains might seem exclusively modern. But in 1931, Technology Review published “Machine-Made Minds: The Psychological Effects of Modern Technology,” in which John Bakeless explored how machines had transformed the very nature of human thought. Here’s what he had to say:

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