one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
May 03 2010
Green faith in the technology saviour“Just because there is an economic incentive to invent something, doesn't mean that inventing it is technically or physically possible”
April 08 2010
The colonising powers of the car“human societies generally now accept that many people will be killed and seriously injured by a technology we think is necessary”
September 25 2009
Everything’s Amazing, Nobody’s Happy
March 16 2009
Time Berners Lee on the web“Among his regrets was starting Web addresses with http:// as the two slashes were redundant, leading to billions of wasted keystrokes.”
September 25 2008
Project Cybersyn, the forgotten story of Chile’s “socialist internet”.
June 17 2008
The web time forgot. How Paul Otlet, a Belgian, envisioned a steampunk ancestor of today’s hypertext.
January 20 2008
The shipping industry is looking for new ways to reduce emissions and costs. One of those ways is about to get its first test: a ship partly powered by a giant kite.
March 04 2007
Sterling on technology as saviour“Green will never get any sexier than it is in 2007. Because, after this, brown will start going away.”
January 11 2007
The EPA says Greenpeace’s assessment of Apple’s green credentials is flawed. They’re not that bad (but could still do way better).
