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a look in the future to see in the past

Posted on October 29, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. Russ Forfar is a science nerd as well as once repairing film cameras in the days before electronics took over. Russ sent me a link to this intriguing article in Science Daily. The article, “Need for larger space telescope … Continue reading →

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a hidden ‘fingerprint’ in digital photos

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. For years professional photographers devised various means to identify date, subject, etc., data for each negative and print.  Amateurs were far less consistent, rarely ever marking negatives. Occasionally amateurs would use pencil or pen to annotate the back of … Continue reading →

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predicting glass

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. Wikipedia has an article on a famous essay that predicted things we take for granted today – like computers, Google Glass, AI, internet, robots and more. In 1939, Vannevar Bush published his essay “Mechanization and the Record”. After the … Continue reading →

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