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Golden Records and Endless Space
Back in 1977, when Apple had a II beside it (instead of a bunch of dollar signs) and everyone’s favorite PET was a Commodore, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration took a bold step, one that rivals the mor…
It’s not very often that one sees one’s life posted on one of the larger news/technology aggregates/communities/linkdumps on the web. But there I sat the other day, idly browsing the web the other day, when up came a chat window from Future US co-s…
Well, physical game discs, it was a good game. You fought hard and had a nice, long reign, but now you’re relics — destined to be excavated millennia from now and presented as evidence of our time period’s ingenious developments in Frisbee tech…
The column before last, I wrote about vinyl records and how amazing the technology for analog sound really is—because you’re fighting the obstinacy of the physical universe throughout the whole signal path.
During the seventies and well int…
I’ll say it again. There is genuine magic in a vinyl record.
The grooves pressed into the vinyl are direct analogs of the sound waves that struck the microphone. Because they’r analogs, the physical medium becomes part of the pr…