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• amvc1 year, 7 months ago | link | reply | source

  We are, right now, in the middle of an explosion of the number of devices being created. This time, they are not mechanical, but logical (i.e. software).

  A side effect of this is that probably nobody has the time nor energy to compile (hehe) a software "Book of Ingenious Devices", since these days searching has replaced cataloging.

  • amvc1 year, 7 months ago | link | reply | source

    For programmers, the closest thing may be https://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html

    • mncmncmnc1 year, 7 months ago | link | reply | source

      Thanks for AOSA book I didn't know about it very cool. It's interesting, I got obsessed a couple months back with The Book of Ingenious Devices, and the fact that later those brothers made the earliest known programmable machine, an automatic flute player. Not long after, by coincidence(?), I got obsessed with cataloging, library science, archiving, etc. Don't have a grand thesis or conclusion here, but I'm trying to spend more time and energy compiling, thinking like a librarian, and I wonder if what you pointed out is part of the reason why :)

      • amvc1 year, 7 months ago | link | reply | source

        Those are really commendable efforts. Not necessarily for us, but for the future.