The History Of Hyperscalers The technology industry is often compared to the fashion industry. Engineers are humans, and we're susceptible to influence—even fads.

In the 1990s, Intel didn’t just make the lion’s share of the world’s processors. It determined what a PC was, and even how it ...

Every fall since 2020 I have been teaching energy economics in Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability (MSES) program. I team teach with my friend Mark Witte ...

The ENIAC was a 30-ton 'numerical monster'—and pivotal in the history of consumer technology.

From “holy hype” to AI sentience, tech has a history of inflating its potential Americans have been speaking reverently about emerging technologies for centuries. Is AI hype too?

After discovering that a history of keyboards— from typewriters to iPhones—had yet to be written, designer and typographer Marcin Wichary got to work.

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this ...

Although quantum computing is a nascent field, there are plenty of key moments that defined it over the last few decades as scientists strive to create machines that can solve impossible problems.