The Light Is Not Being Carried, It Is Trapped
The intuitive picture of a fibre optic cable is a pipe with light shining down it, kept on course by a…
It measures the car first, reuses the water, and the brushes are not brushes. Here are twelve.
1. The Machine Measures the Car First
Before anything moves, a set of…
Nothing in There Is Looking at the Bread
This is the fact that reorganises everything else. A domestic toaster contains no sensor pointed at the toast, no measurement of its…
It Does Not Catch Anything
The name does not help and the shape does not help. It is a metal box in an exhaust pipe, the pipe is dirty, and…
The Problem Is Harder Than It Sounds
A machine taking money has to answer a question that a person answers effortlessly and unconsciously: is this a real coin, and which…
Three Pins, Three Completely Different Jobs
It looks like a symmetrical arrangement of three identical things, and it is nothing of the kind. The three pins are doing three unrelated…