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Dec 14
2007

Nat Torkington

Nat Torkington

ETech and the Economist

I consistently save more items from The Economist to my delicious bookmarks than any other of my RSS feeds. Now I wonder whether they've been saving my delicious bookmarks for their publication :-) Their most recent set of features tackled a lot of the topics from this year's ETech: consumer genomics (be sure to see My Daughter's DNA this year—it was a standout highlight of Science Foo Camp for me), UAVs (we have Chris Anderson's homebrew UAV session), and the always awesome Larry Lessig ("Coding Against Corruption" is the title of his ETech keynote). It's lovely to be on the same page (so to speak) as this great publication.



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Kevin Farnham   [12.14.07 11:30 AM]

The Economist really is a great -- and unique -- magazine. I've saved many of their Technology Quarterly's (a pull-out in the print edition) over the years.

Their discussion of the history of "motors" (first a boom, then a bust, then conquering daily life in a multitude of forms) is a primary basis of my belief that Web 2.0 is the start of a great wave of development that will last for decades -- just as motors seemed so promising around 1900, then there was a "bubble" with 100s of automobile startups, then a bust, then a wave of "motorized" inventions throughout the rest of the 20th Century. That pattern reminds me so much of the past 20 years of computers and the Internet...

Anyway -- it's a great magazine. I'll look for your picture in a future article!

gnat   [12.14.07 06:28 PM]

@Kevin - thanks! Tim's a big fan of that motor story, too. Actually, I was namechecked in a Technology Quarterly a while ago. I think it was about the Where 2.0 conference. It's not like Anil, in the New York Times with a goatse shirt, but it made me happy :-)

Seth Wagoner   [12.28.07 10:26 PM]

I used to lose a few hours a week to the print edition when my flatmate subscribed. I will now exercise an act of will and not add the Economist to my already completely overloaded feed collection.


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