Daniel Kolitz
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Can You Really Tell the Difference Between 4K and 8K?
Some time ago I came to feel, in a very literal way, the speed of semi-recent technological progress. My roommate — a gamer — had gotten it into his head, possibly via some other gamer, that ‘90s video games look best when played on ‘90s televisions. This led him to secure one on Craigslist, which…
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What Will Smartphones Be Like in 10 years?
If you’d asked a panel of experts 10 years ago what smartphones would look like in a decade, you’d have gotten all kinds of wild responses. Recall that in 2001 the biggest thing in cell phone technology was the Nokia 8250, the chief selling point of which was its colourful display. Instead of black-and-white, this…
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Could We Ever Stop a Hurricane in Its Tracks?
Neutralising a hurricane as it barrels over the ocean might seem like a dumb idea, but if we refused to indulge seemingly dumb ideas, would we ever have, you know, gone to the Moon, that kind of thing? Yes, hurricanes are unfathomably huge and powerful — but so is, in my opinion, the collective ingenuity…
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When Will the Covid-19 Pandemic Be Over?
I sometimes think back to a phone call with a friend in the spring of 2020. Cases were down and pundits were optimistic: it seemed genuinely possible that, by mid-summer, all this would finally be over. These last two months, I said to my friend — will they seem, from summer’s vantage, like a weird…