The New Zealand exhibition for the prestigious 50th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art links two ingenious Kiwi inventions – the Trekka and the Moniac. In his installation This is the Trekka, New ...
There is an argument to be made that whichever hue of political buffoons ends up in Number 10 Downing Street, the White House, the Élysée Palace, or wherever the President, Prime Minister or despot ...
There was a time when computers ran on water. No, really. They did. Check out the video above, a recent demonstration of a machine called the MONIAC, originally built in 1949. The MONIAC---short for ...
The phrase "early computer" usually evokes a room full of whirring, cabinet-sized machines or punch cards. Nothing wet there. But at least a couple of early innovators built computers that ran on ...
A digital twin of the landmark economic simulator 'The Moniac', the FT Money Machine leverages Apple Vision Pro to deliver an immersive and interactive experience making economics education more ...
Granta: 2005. 224 pp. £15.99 Published in the United States as In a Fraction of a Second by Joseph Henry Press ($27.95) 0309096308, 1862076634 | ISBN: 0-309-09630-8 Writing a history of events that ...