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Voices In Time

1519 | Bajaur

Top Gun

Babur on the element of surprise.More

Voices In Time

1908 | Kitty Hawk, NC

Flight Plan

Wilbur and Orville Wright take off.More

Voices In Time

c. 12 | Rome

Waterwheel

Antipater of Thessalonica on hydropower.More

Voices In Time

1823 | London

Tunnel Vision

Henry Law goes underground in London.More

Voices In Time

1945 | New Mexico

Destroyer of Worlds

Thomas F. Farrell at the Trinity test.More

Voices In Time

c. 1260 | Paris

In the Cloud

Roger Bacon predicts the marvelous.More

Voices In Time

1911 | Philadelphia

Work Force

Frederick W. Taylor offers some productivity hacks.More

Voices In Time

1916 | Franconia, NH

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Robert Frost marks a change of scenery.More

Voices In Time

1878 | Newark, NJ

Fire Starter

Plastic’s limitless future.More

Voices In Time

1150 | Ujjain

Perpetual Motion

Bhaskara II’s instructions for building a self-revolving machine.More

Voices In Time

1787 | Philadelphia

Job Creation

Tench Coxe builds a workforce.More

Voices In Time

1914 | Columbia, MO

Inventing the Superfluous

Thorstein Veblen on man as cog in the machine.More

Voices In Time

1894 | Washington, DC

Open Source

George W. Murray wants an equal opportunity to change the world.More

Voices In Time

1922 | Dearborn, MI

Means of Production

Henry Ford builds an assembly line.More

Voices In Time

c. 213 BC | Syracuse

Engine Optimization

Plutarch on Archimedes’ extraordinary machines.More

Voices In Time

1802 | Bishopwearmouth

Intelligent Design

William Paley marvels at the intricacies of human anatomy.More

Voices In Time

1843 | London

Computer, Enhance

Ada Lovelace tempers expectations.More

Voices In Time

1829 | Craigenputtock

Machine Learning

Thomas Carlyle sees “no end to machinery.”More

Voices In Time

1812 | Yorkshire

Destroying the Competition

Charlotte Brontë with a message from the Luddites.More

Voices In Time

c. 960 | Exeter

My Name Is…

Answer these three riddles.More

Voices In Time

1863 | Christchurch

Artificial Selection

Samuel Butler sees machines reign supreme.More

Voices In Time

1840 | New York City

Photographic Memory

Samuel F.B. Morse on the daguerreotype.More

Voices In Time

1878 | Heidelberg

Hive Mind

Mark Twain on simultaneous invention.More

Voices In Time

1841 | Lowell, MA

All Things Considered

A factory worker sets low expectations.More

Voices In Time

c. 27 BC | Rome

Control Group

Vitruvius learns by example.More

Voices In Time

The Future | Underground

Isolation Booth

E.M. Forster on Zoom.More

Voices In Time

c. 395 | Rome

Nature’s Rival

Claudian on a derided remake.More

Voices In Time

1708 | Lagado

Bureaucratic Drift

Jonathan Swift visits Laputa’s works in progress.More

Voices In Time

1995 | Lincoln, MT

Technical Error

A warning from Ted Kaczynski.More

Voices In Time

1637 | Leiden

Practical Magic

René Descartes, open-access advocate.More

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