Vintage Tech is a personal newsletter that explores obsolete inventions, forgotten technology and curious gadgets, from 1930s in-car navigation and early airships to the NES Zapper and why Duck Hunt no longer works on modern TVs. Each issue mixes historical explanation with anecdotes and a lighthearted, self-deprecating voice.
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An independent journal of long-form essays on horology history, covering individual watchmakers, specific historic timepieces and the longitude problem. Readers get archival, object-focused research on makers who are often overlooked or misattributed.
Essays by Nicholas Carr on technology, media, perception and culture, mixing close critique of current digital habits with historical and philosophical context. Readers get long-form, original argument rather than news summaries.
A newsletter that uses the history and philosophy of science and technology to analyse where AI is heading. Issues combine historical narrative, such as Bell Labs and neural network history, with argumentative essays on scaling, paradigms and the effects of AI and robotics.
A serialized history of artificial intelligence, with recent issues covering AlexNet and the rise of deep learning, the 2012-2017 progress in vision, language and games, and the Transformer. It explains how datasets, hardware, algorithms and benchmarks combined to drive each advance.
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