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The Lake They Couldn't See
Every fifty years a new kind of gold appears, and we ride past the thing worth keeping to go dig it up. We are doing it again.
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Looms Taught Us to Store, Share, and Run Logic
The loom is a computer. It has been one for 30,000 years. The Inca had 7-bit ASCII in string. Lacemakers ran a two-opcode instruction set. NASA called the women who wove the Apollo computer 'Little Old Ladies,' then erased their names.