It’s Hard Fork Friday! Today, in a very special, extra-manic Thanksgiving episode, we count down the 100 most iconic technologies of all time. Did sundials outrank the Walkman? Is penicillin more iconic than Waymo? Only one way to find out! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/p... - ThreadSky

kevinroose.com • 154 days ago

It’s Hard Fork Friday! Today, in a very special, extra-manic Thanksgiving episode, we count down the 100 most iconic technologies of all time.

Did sundials outrank the Walkman? Is penicillin more iconic than Waymo? Only one way to find out!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/podcasts/hardfork-iconic-100-technologies.html

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tilmanbayer.bsky.social•152 days ago

There is some discussion about your claim that the film "Arrival" was a major inspiration for Transformers:
https://bsky.app/profile/tedunderwood.me/post/3lcawneoxqk22
What is the source for that, and who is the "one researcher in particular" from the Transformers team at Google that you are referring to?

pfrishauf.bsky.social•152 days ago

Appreciate pick of Aqueducts (#23 -- NYC's 1840s copy of the Roman design made the city's success possible w its companion Sewer system -- also a pick). Seems to me except for Boats + Waymo , other transport neglected. Bicycles (beyond LSD!)? Trains?

Is there a complete 100 list in text anywhere?

screenlight.bsky.social•150 days ago

This morning I was very sleepy but had to get up for my kid. Gulped a coffee and put on headphones. Lemme tell you, HF’s manic vibe kicked my brain into gear before the coffee. I mean that in a good way.

halfpeaw.bsky.social•154 days ago

If my TI-82 calculator from high school isn't on this list, I will be woefully disappointed. Who doesn't have memories of making graphs and playing "drug wars" while bored in math class.

halfpeaw.bsky.social•154 days ago

It was 99!

ceater.bsky.social•154 days ago

You have Napster above refrigeration and more than forty places above the wheel. Seriously. Also, not sure I would include this but given some of your other items… I don’t recall any mention of VCR or DVR technology to time-shift television.

Love the podcast.

jonas-29.bsky.social•154 days ago

Love your Podcast!

djzap.bsky.social•153 days ago

Sociologically, the list is a good study, but a better definition would focus the subject and podcast. Overreach and an overly wide scope dilute the meaning of things, making it unwieldy, endless babel, or a junk drawer of things. Also avoid redundancy and overlap; i.e., things w/ similar impact.

djzap.bsky.social•153 days ago

BTW... I thought something was wrong when you placed "radio" at the bottom of the list. It should clearly be in the top 30 to 50 at least. Radio changed news, entertainment, culture, global outlook, farming, etc. Indeed, it is absolutely formative to Silicon Valley and Bay Area history!

heatherfreeman.bsky.social•151 days ago

Loved this episode, and loved that you both were, like, "ugh, the hate mail". 😂 Also, hell yeah to the birth control pill, seriously! (That, plus diapers and Doom, is why I'm fine with the absence of distillation, lol).

sespool.bsky.social•154 days ago

Listened to the entire episode. don't understand your ranking criteria. you missed some obvious ones and included some that were really dubious.

kenfromchicago.bsky.social•153 days ago

The episode of #HardFork that reveals you and @caseynewton.bsky.social are in the pocket of Big Lever or maybe Big Fulcrum or maybe both? 🤔🤔🤔

lorion70.bsky.social•148 days ago

GOTYA thanks for piece.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/bluesky-smiling-at-me-commentary/

erwinvogelaar.com•154 days ago

Not the fracking 🙈

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