What are some of your favorite smells?
There’s a plant that I can never figure out the name of, a California shrub/plant that smells like a pool looks in summer when you’re 5. Whenever I smell it I instantly regress to a wonderful place that I can almost picture. It’s one of those things that’s genuine magic.
One of the original computer scientists, Jaron Lanier (who coined the phrase “virtual reality”) began his talk at City Lights by playing a mouth organ made of bamboo. It is from Laos and is called a khaen. 7,000 years old, it is the first prototype of the computer, according to Lanier. He referred to it as a 16-bit Read More
