Posts tagged “artificial intelligence”

Four workers against a Gilbreth motion-study grid, a mason, a weaver, a line worker pulling the andon cord and a writer, each hand tracing a light trail that forks at every choice; the chosen trails rise and weave together overhead.

Work and Workflow

Alan Forester-Kaiser · October 14, 2026

A bricklayer in 1890 laying a course of common brick stooped to the pile at his feet, picked up a brick, turned it over to find the better face, tapped it to knock off loose mortar, and carried it up […]

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On Purpose of Writing

Idan Rednaxus · October 13, 2026

On high ground above tree line, trails are often marked by cairns: small stacks of stones, one in sight of next, trails leading across rock where no path wears into the ground. Nobody knows who are their builders. A hiker […]

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A woodcut-style man in red, in waistcoat and breeches, swings a sledgehammer high overhead toward a stocking frame drawn in faint pale lines on a black ground.

Forms of Luddism

Margaret Johannsen · October 13, 2026

In 1492 the abbot of Sponheim, Johannes Trithemius, wrote a treatise called In Praise of Scribes. Monks, he argued, should keep copying books by hand even though the new presses could produce them faster. Copying was devotion. A scribe meditated […]

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Memory farmland at dusk: rows of bulky gray memory buildings, each venting shimmering heat, planted like crops to the horizon under a violet and orange sky with dark hills and transmission towers, and one last fruit tree in blossom

Memory Farms in the Valley of Heart's Delight

Idan Rednaxus · October 1, 2026

Before it was Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley had another name. Promoters in the early twentieth century called it the Valley of Heart's Delight: miles of prune, apricot, peach, and cherry orchards between the bay and the hills, among […]

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A singularity over a city at night: a black event horizon ringed with light and a tilted orange accretion disk, as buildings tear loose from the skyline and spiral in toward it, stretching and burning as they fall

The AI Event of 2026

Alan Forester-Kaiser · September 30, 2026

Historic events usually don't arrive on a date. The numerals Europe counts with didn't have a launch day. Leonardo of Pisa, the mathematician later called Fibonacci, brought the Hindu-Arabic system to Italian merchants in his Liber Abaci in 1202, and […]

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