Tomorrow is midsummer’s eve, or solstice, the biggest holiday in Sweden next to Christmas. Feels like everyone is logging out early today, at least mentally, thinking more about garden parties and dancing around the midsummer pole to the sound of fiddles than about work. A link to this video arrived in my mail. It reminds me […]
More and more people download their music on the internet, and record stores are having a hard time. How come I’ve never heard anyone talk about on–demand CD production in the stores? The rapid decline in the number of record stores was discussed in a program on Swedish Radio P2 a couple of hours ago. […]
He founded the Stockholm branch of the Swedish Institute for Production Engineering Research, IVF, during a break in his doctoral studies in 1965. Before he had time to complete his Ph.D. he became a professor in production engineering at Linköping Institute of Technology, LiTH (1971–1976), and in manufacturing systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, […]
Imagine an e–book consisting only of a paper battery with electronic ink and circuits printed directly on the battery. Sounds interesting? This may become reality with a newly invented battery. Read on. Algal–blooms have been a major problem in the Baltic sea over the last decade or so. Causes are attributed to be global warming, excess […]
As I wrote in a previous post, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is investing in research on, and development of, the so–called travelling wave reactor. According to an article published by Ny Teknik today, Terrapower, the development company owned by Gates, is planning reactors in different sizes ranging from 0.1 GW to several GW. However, we’ll have […]
I was scanning the archives of New Scientist when I found this article by sci–fi writer Geoff Ryman with the irresistible name “2109: The Realiy?” Ever since I was a kid reading Jules Verne, I’ve been fascinated by visions of the future where technology has reshaped the society as we know it. The future will be […]
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