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		<title>The car and the telephone allowed for the bureaucratization of coercion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The car and the telephone, Kulak argues, allowed for the bureaucratization of coercion: If you look at the orders given to British Captains and Admirals during the Napoleonic wars, these orders were often shockingly cursory. Sometimes only 1-2 sentences would be the whole of the Admiralty’s direction to a ship’s Captain for months at a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Do something, not everything</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/07/do-something-not-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2024, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), he met up with a group of General Magic alumni to discuss their proto-iPhone: It had been three decades since they went public—with no revenue—in Silicon Valley’s first “concept IPO.” […] On the day of the IPO, Sony’s investment in General Magic instantly [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Runaway</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/07/runaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have zero recollection of the movie Runaway coming out in 1984 — and, more tellingly, no recollection of it playing on cable or coming up in conversation after that. At some point in this last decade, it came up somehow, as a bit of a punchline, because it features Gene Simmons — yes, Gene [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The only option is radiation</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/07/the-only-option-is-radiation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, when I first discovered Winchell Chung’s Atomic Rockets site and its list of common misconceptions about space travel, I was taken off guard by a simple point that’s obvious in retrospect: Rockets got wings. If your rocket has a multi-megawatt power plant, an absurdly high thrust thermal rocket propulsion system, or directed energy [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Active flow control systems blow precisely directed jets of air over the wing and tail surfaces to reshape the airflow around the aircraft</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/06/active-flow-control-systems-blow-precisely-directed-jets-of-air-over-the-wing-and-tail-surfaces-to-reshape-the-airflow-around-the-aircraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that the triangular wings for its X-65 demonstrator have arrived at its Virginia integration facility: The X-65 uses a triangular, or delta-derived, planform with modular outboard wing sections that can be reconfigured between test campaigns, allowing engineers to evaluate active flow control performance across multiple sweep angles rather than committing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>User error, it turned out, was actually designer error</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/06/user-error-it-turned-out-was-actually-designer-error/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Vietnam, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), the Army moved from Nylon flak vests to Kevlar, then added rifle-proof ceramic plates, and then added extra protection against “frag” for the neck, groin, shoulders, etc.: When a vehicle rolled over, or caught fire, or went underwater, soldiers were unable to move quickly enough to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The ideas that made an impact in the long run were those that embedded something new in something already established</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Shakespeare’s era, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), creativity was more associated with the ability to improve upon something that existed than with sheer originality: If the audience already knew the story, they could readily take in the unique aspects that each new creator brought to it. […] Robert McKee, in his classic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The device was designed to make an injured soldier more self-sufficient</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s new Intrepid Battlefield EXoskeleton (IBEX) is a shoulder-to-foot brace that allows injured troops to stand, walk, and shoot when evacuation is impossible or delayed: The device was designed to make an injured soldier more self-sufficient, so they can move themselves to safety instead of relying on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>General Magic had a right to any IP developed by employees</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/06/general-magic-had-a-right-to-any-ip-developed-by-employees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Magic was already in trouble, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), when a tech-support guy named Pierre Omidyar used his free time and personal website to start AuctionWeb: General Magic had a right to any IP developed by employees, so Omidyar dutifully showed the company’s lawyer that his site was generating traffic, connecting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Businesspeople weren’t going to use the Newton unless it included a phone</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/businesspeople-werent-going-to-use-the-newton-unless-it-included-a-phone/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/businesspeople-werent-going-to-use-the-newton-unless-it-included-a-phone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 11:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Tesler, who was leading Apple’s Newton group, hired an anthropologist named Eleanor Wynn, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), to test the theory behind their business plan: Wynn reported back that business&#173;people weren’t going to use the Newton unless it included a phone. But adding a phone at that point (as General Magic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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