Cabinet of Wonders
Samuel ArbesmanBe prepared for radical interdisciplinarity: science + technology + complexity + humanities + wonder.
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☞ The Wisdom of the People's Computer Company
First issue of the People’s Computer Company.
In 1972, a new publication was announced with the following call to action (and whose strange formatting I tried to preserve as much as possible):
Computers are mostly
used against peop...
☞ The Slow Work of Making Sense of History
The muse of history.
The task of distilling history from the messiness of facts into the stories that make sense of our past is not an easy one. It takes time, requires meticulous work, and often a bit of temporal distance. The researcher...
☞ Maxis Software Toys
I recently came across catalogs from Maxis—the maker of SimCity and other simulation games—from 1993 and 1994. These catalogs are billed as Software Toys Catalogs and are fascinating looks into what they were offering during this time and h...
☞ Innovation Biopics
An invention unlikely to have a movie made about it.
I love films about how a product or company came to be. There are so many of these innovation biopics (or, as Kevin Kelly calls them, “product docu-dramas”). A selection I’ve enjoyed:...
☞ A Cabinet of Wonders Gift Guide
A gift should be better than what Pandora got.
As the end of the year approaches, I thought I might make an official Cabinet of Wonders Gift Guide: 2025 edition. It’s a combination of strange and fun little toys and tools that I like and u...
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Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital, and author of "The Half-Life of Facts" and "Overcomplicated." I'm ensorcelled by wonder.
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