May 01

By Peter Diamandis, which (if you’re not familiar with his stuff) means “like Cory Doctorow on really good uppers”:…

By Peter Diamandis, which (if you’re not familiar with his stuff) means “like Cory Doctorow on really good uppers”: full-tilt, jargon-laced, and relentlessly utopian.

But setting that aside, this is a fascinating shift that the manufacturing industry is just starting to go through, which looks like taking it in the same direction as the early personal computer software industry.

If I had kids, I would be making sure they understood the basics of 3D modeling and industrial design.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

3 Major Shifts Are About to Transform Manufacturing as We Know It https://suhub.co/2I0UxHg

May 01

Turns out training a machine to read manuscripts is difficult, but possible.

Turns out training a machine to read manuscripts is difficult, but possible.

(As the article points out upfront, “Secret Archives” is a poor translation; it’s more like “Private Archives”.)

Originally shared by ExtremeTech

The archive contains the records and documents of all of the actions taken by the Catholic Church over a period of over 800 years.

http://bit.ly/2FyjWCL