Interessant3 #139 | 🚀 Old-School Science Sites, 🌐 The Future Revisited, 🧠 Trivial Decisions
Three Interesting Things for W/C 2025-05-04
🚀 Old-School Science Sites
The best scientific minds of the early internet era often shared their brilliance via stark HTML pages, and many are still live. This X thread curates a treasure trove of these web relics that remain surprisingly useful in 2025, from propulsion guides to epidemiology and stats handbooks. Each one a triumph of substance over style.
🌐 Welcome to the Future
offers a sweeping, vivid tour of the real-world future we’ve stumbled into of drones, deepfakes, and disinformation. Robot dogs patrol parks, AI girlfriends plot regicide, and drone warfare reshapes geopolitics. Smith argues that the technologies once confined to dystopian fiction are now mundane parts of our reality, along with the social fractures those stories warned of, such as surveillance, inequality, and authoritarian drift. Nonetheless, this is a great article that covers a lot of recent tech developments.🧠 The Law of Triviality
Why do committees spend more time discussing bike sheds than nuclear reactors? Enter Parkinson’s Law of Triviality, a delightful sociological observation that explains many baffling meetings and political speeches. The more complex a topic, the more people defer; the simpler it seems, the louder the opinions.
👉 Wikipedia: Law of Triviality
Join us next week for three more intriguing topics that challenge the norm and expand your horizons! ✌️
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