This newsletter from the Brazilian e-waste company Ecobraz publishes short history pieces on Brazilian technology and design, such as the first domestically built electron microscope, glass-plate photography and the orelhão payphone. Its content is generic and promotional in tone, with little original reporting or analysis.
Website: https://ecobraz.org/
Long-form essays on the economics of AI and technological change, combining historical narrative with reviews of empirical labor market evidence. Readers get a careful, sourced treatment of questions like AI's labor market impact and the plausibility of double-digit growth forecasts.
A blog and monthly PDF issue reviewing the people, products, and companies featured on the PBS series Computer Chronicles (1983-2002). It also publishes transcripts of podcast episodes with in-depth histories of companies like Brøderbund and Gavilan.
Long-form retrospectives on productivity software from the 8/16-bit era, such as Lotus Improv, AppleWorks and Visual Basic, placed in their historical and cultural context. Each issue examines how the software was actually used and why it succeeded or failed.
Long-form histories of companies and people in the computing industry, such as Matrox and MITS, the maker of the Altair 8800. Each issue draws on period sources like BYTE magazine to trace founders, products and business turning points.
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