Progress Has a Subscription Fee
Progress is not permanent: from Concorde and Apollo to ancient machines, human capabilities vanish when industries, skills and institutions stop sustaining them.
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The Internet Archive at Thirty: In Praise of the Untidy Memory of Civilization
Thirty years on, the Internet Archive reminds us that memory is infrastructure, not nostalgia.
See You at Y10K: From Millennium Bugs to Quantum Midnight
From Y2K panic to Q-Day anxiety: civilization keeps discovering that yesterday’s clever shortcuts become tomorrow’s emergency meetings.