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What I learned from a 1993 issue of WIRED I found in a book box on the sidewalk:
I didn't know it was from 1993 at first, but I was startled to see a picture of Sonic the Hedgehog on the cover, so I opened it to a random page and saw an ad for an Apple tablet -- no, not the iPad, the Newton MessagePad. The ad copy was very wordy compared to modern Apple, but the feeling was more or less the same. "We have a shiny and ( Read more... ) -
Psychologist used crowdsourced pigeons to guide missiles
http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=353
During World War II, behaviorist psychologist B F Skinner had an idea to to solve a serious problem facing the US military. At that time, missiles were unguided and accuracy was low. Since even rudimentary optoelectronic processing didn't exist back then, Skinner came up with the bright idea of training ( Read more... )
