Notices by Harry McCracken (harrymccracken@sfba.social)

For this week's Plugged In newsletter, I wrote about some of the stuff that piqued my interest at IFA, Berlin's similarly-enormous counterpart to CES. https://www.fastcompany.com/90948439/ifa-berlin-2023

Here's Alex Pasternack on what J. Robert Oppenheimer can teach us--including some lessons left out of the movie. https://www.fastcompany.com/90926550/the-fateful-choices-of-oppenheimer

Rate limits are the new social-networking hotness. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/the-spam-bots-have-now-found-threads-as-company-announces-its-own-rate-limits/

These are some of the earliest photos I ever took--with a Keystone camera, I think--when I was a little kid. Our neighborhood, my grandmother, and my father's workplace, Reed College.

Alan Kay, via prerecorded video, says that the fact tech has been funded by companies in search of “mass monetization” for decades has taken us away from the ideals expressed by Xerox PARC’s Alto.

I am sorry to report that the last two publications recognizable as computer magazines in the classic sense have abandoned print. (You probably didn’t notice unless you were a subscriber.) I was moved to write a eulogy for the whole era. https://www.technologizer.com/2023/04/15/the-end-of-computer-magazines-in-america/