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Benedict Evans: annual technology industry presentations
Benedict Evans releases major tech industry trend presentations twice yearly — free PDFs with hundreds of slides covering macro shifts in tech. His 2025 edition is 'AI eats the world.' Required reading for understanding where the industry is headed.
TIAT: The Intersection of Art & Technology (SF)
TIAT (The Intersection of Art & Technology) is a San Francisco gallery and coworking space for creative technologists — exhibitions, monthly salons, and studio access for artists working at the art-technology boundary.
Nomadic Research Labs — Steve Roberts
Steve Roberts's Nomadic Research Labs documents his decades-long project of building fully computerized nomadic vehicles — a solar-powered recumbent bicycle with onboard computers in 1983, then a sail-powered vessel. A legendary hacker adventure that predated the modern mobile computing world.
Max Hawkins
Max Hawkins is an artist and software engineer whose practice centers on surrendering control to algorithms — randomized living arrangements, random diets, random social events. His work treats computation as a tool for disrupting human habit and discovering the unexpected.
Artemis pCell Wireless Technology
Artemis Networks' pCell technology — a claimed breakthrough in wireless that inverts the cell tower model by treating interference as signal, theoretically delivering full bandwidth to every user simultaneously. A technically audacious claim that generated significant attention in 2014.
IBM's 5 in 5: Life in the Next 5 Years (2013 Edition)
IBM's 2013 '5 in 5' annual technology predictions for 2018 — the classroom will learn you, buying local beats online, personalized DNA medicine, digital guardians, smart cities. IBM's annual attempt to predict near-term tech futures.
Hadoop Creator: Google Is Living a Few Years in the Future
Doug Cutting (Hadoop creator) on Google living years ahead in infrastructure — the observation that Google's internal systems consistently anticipate what the rest of the industry will need, and then the open-source community builds it later.
Silicon Valley — American Experience (PBS)
PBS American Experience's documentary on Silicon Valley — tracing the valley's origins from Hewlett-Packard and Fairchild Semiconductor through the microprocessor era. A rare long-form historical treatment of how the modern tech industry was built.
Forrester's Top 15 Emerging Technologies (2013)
VentureBeat's coverage of Forrester's top 15 emerging technologies for 2013 — a snapshot of what enterprise analysts considered the most consequential technology bets. Interesting as a historical artifact: which predictions materialized and which didn't.
The Joy of Quiet
Pico Iyer's 2012 NYT essay arguing for deliberate disconnection from digital noise — written just as smartphones were making constant connectivity the default. One of the first mainstream pieces to name what we were trading away and why retreating to silence was becoming a luxury.
EdTech in High School (jackcwest blog)
Jack West's blog on EdTech in high school — a teacher's perspective on integrating technology into classroom practice in 2012. Part of the broader conversation about whether and how digital tools change learning, written from the front lines rather than from policy or product teams.
Technology brings Tupac back to life at Coachella
The 2012 Coachella performance that appeared to resurrect Tupac Shakur using a stage illusion marketed as a hologram — actually Pepper's ghost, a Victorian-era trick. Sparked the first mainstream conversation about digital resurrection of deceased performers.