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It Was to Have Been the Nuclear Age. It Became … THE COMPUTER AGE | Excerpts from IBM promotional brochure, circa 1976. 

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Atoms for Peace

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Heiko Hellwig: Silicon Cities (2017)

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Kostya Petrenko (via Kottke)

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'Ghanaian customs X-ray image at the port of Tema, near Accra, 2023. The image shows sound systems piled up in a container. The colours indicate the various elements comprising the load', Guardian

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by TOKYOLUV

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Gen Art by Seb Krier

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From a friend “We really take it a bit for granted how rich and high tech the US was even early on. This photo was taken in 1966 when there were 23 helicopter flights a day carrying passengers straight from the PanAm building to JFK. Absolutely unimaginable to almost anyone anywhere else in the world at that time”

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Sunday, November 26, was the busiest day ever at airports in the United States, with the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reporting 2,907,378 passengers screened. More than 51,000 flights occurred, surpassing the daily average of 45,000 from 2022. The previous busiest day ever recorded by the TSA was also this year, on Friday, June 30, when 2,883,000 passengers traveled ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.

Source imagery: Flightradar24.com

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Japanese Book Cover: Neuromancer. 1986

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Toronto IBM datacenter, 1963

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Oh hell yea

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Farmland creates a vibrant pattern against the foothills of the Taurus Mountains in Besni District, southeastern Türkiye. This region contains human settlements that date back thousands of years and is not far from the Fertile Crescent, where agriculture first emerged. Crops grown here include pistachios, pomegranates, almonds, walnuts, olives, apples and mulberries.

37.532097°, 37.943359°

Source imagery: Maxar