Amateur Technology
David LangHow hobbyists and amateurs shape the future.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 23 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 5 months ago |
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The Shape of Science to Come
It was a tumultuous year for American science.
Throughout 2025, the headlines in Science and Nature read like a slow-drip obituary. Dreadful developments accumulated, tracked by full-time beat reporters and dedicated “bad times for scienc...
On Personal Science
Gary Wolf is one of the great catalogers—part writer, part scene-maker. He’s best known for leading the Quantified Self, a concept that originated in a WIRED article and evolved into a meetup series and cultural movement. He has thought dee...
On Protocols
Protocols run the world, whether you’re aware of them or not. As our lives continue to intertwine with our tools, the underlying rules—formal, technical, explicit—gain even more importance. Noticing this, Venkatesh Rao and the Ethereum Foun...
On Genetic Rescue
The headlines about de-extinction are everywhere these days—from dire wolf pups to the coming woolly mammoths. But the idea was just a science fiction story fifteen years ago, before a serious field-building effort helped make it real....
On Quantum Technology
Note: Recorded in November 2023
While working at Rigetti Computing, Will Zeng experimented with open-source quantum computing. In the process, he was surprised by the interest from hobbyist developers and their ability to contribute. H...
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