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Tag Archives: William Gibson

MY SAN FRANCISCO—AND WILLIAM GIBSON’S

WHEN SAN FRANCISCO comes to mind, I think of its cable cars, Morgan sports cars and Bill Fink’s Isis Imports Ltd., North Beach’s Caffe Sport—and, in utter contrast, the low-life/high-tech … Continue reading

December 1, 2014 · 2 Comments

THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE—FACT AND FICTION

CHARLES BABBAGE was a nineteenth century mathematician who recognized the computational drudgery of assembling tables of logarithms, trigonometric and other mathematical functions. This was the Industrial Age, after all. Why … Continue reading

September 30, 2012 · Leave a comment