Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2695: Hydraulic Information
Posted on · Episode: 2695 The 21st Century information floodtide, seen as applied hydraulics. Today, information flows like water.
Posted on · Episode: 2695 The 21st Century information floodtide, seen as applied hydraulics. Today, information flows like water.
Posted on · Episode: 2685 C. P. Snow’s two cultures after 52 years and the coming of the Internet. Today, C. P. Snow at a cocktail party.
Posted on · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Posted on · As Houston Matters marks ten years on the air, we discuss how the technology landscape has changed in the past decade.
Posted on · What we see on our screens may not reflect our reality, especially for women and people of color.
Posted on · Episode: 2682 Technical English and the Verbing of Nouns. Today, we verb a little.
Posted on · Episode: 2409 Struggling to keep our grip on the past as we move from books to the Internet. Today, we struggle to remember what we once knew.
Posted on · Episode: 2388 In which Paul Otlet invents the hyperlink, and almost invents the Internet. Today, we invent the hyperlink.
Posted on · Episode: 2315 Paying for our entertainments by watching advertising — back in 1885. Today, we think about Internet advertising.
Posted on · Episode: 2253 Revisiting the Commons in a rapidly changing world. Today, we visit the commons.
Posted on · Today, Marron shares what he’s learned about having difficult conversations and how having them can help close the ever-growing distance between us.
Posted on · Episode: 2196 In which the future we seek to know is already among us. Today, the future is among us.
Posted on · Episode: 2186 Lost beauty of old words: nostalgia thwarted a flood of new books. Today, language slips away from us.
Posted on · Has the pandemic made the influence of social media and screen time worse? And what can parents do to protect their children from negative effects?
Posted on · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.