“I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.” – Thucydides The Peloponnesian Wars 460-446 / 431-404 BCE Everyone knows the story of King […]
The following are historic quotes on failure from the Epik Fails of History podcast! Quotes from the show’s intro: Season 1: Season 2: Season 3: Listen […]
Last time, in Part One (Mechanical Clocks, Electricity, and Radio), we talked about the Abacus, the Chinese ‘Cosmic Engine’, the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, robots in early […]
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke As we approach the coming “Technological Singularity”, with the advent of Quantum Computing and […]