John Bull

Work with the Every team to bring AI to your organization We launched our consulting arm because we were constantly hearing from readers that while they wanted to implement AI throughout their operations, product, and services, they were struggling…

If history is written by the victors, Lore Harp McGovern should have volumes devoted to her contributions to the personal computing industry. In the mid-1970s, from her suburban California home, Harp McGovern—a housewife and mother of two—began…

In the Oscar-nominated film The Holdovers, the lead character, a history teacher, says, “Before you dismiss something as boring or irrelevant, remember, if you truly want to understand the present or yourself, you must begin in the past. You see,…

We’re in the midst of the biggest paradigm shift in technology since the internet and the personal computer. If you want to understand what’s going to happen with AI, you have to understand how previous technology shifts played out—because history…

The reinvention of X July 28, 2023 How to Build a GPT-4 Chat Bot Course We just re-launched our How To Build a GPT-4 Chatbot course taught by Dan Shipper! It's an online cohort-based course that will teach you how to make your own GPT-4 based…

“I’m disappointed everyone here isn’t more… you know… Spanish.” The man in the expensive suit says, with slight confusion, to the towering figure behind the downstairs bar. Jan, the Belgian manager of Bradley’s Spanish Bar gives him a look of faint…

“Knight Rider is the Lone Ranger,” Glen A. Larson once explained in an interview with the Archive of American Television (AAT). “It’s one man comes into town and he has a little bit more going for him than people think — and that’s a great theme! I…

The morning of 29 October 2018 dawned bright in Jakarta. As the sun rose over Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft operating Lion Air flight 610 taxied for takeoff. In the flight deck of PK-LQP that morning were captain…

In 1999, an incident at Pristina almost brought NATO into open conflict with Russia. This is how Michael Jackson stopped it.

The morning of 6th January 1942 was going to be a cold one. Not that this was unusual for New York, mused the night-shift air controller at LaGuardia’s tower, but it did mean he’d have to wrap up extra warm when he headed home. He looked at his…

In 1944 Eisenhower gave Group Captain James Stagg a near-impossible task: Predict the weather for D-Day. May 15 1944, Hammersmith, London (D-Day -21) One by one, clutching the beautifully engraved invitations they had received a month earlier, they…

“My folks came to the United States as immigrants, aliens, and they became citizens. I was born in Boston a citizen; I went to Hollywood, and I became an alien.” Leonard Nimoy spoke these words to Radio Boston in 2012. They were intended to be in…

Spencer Perceval is the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated. He deserves to be remembered for much more than that. On the 11th May 1812, Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, entered the House of Commons. He was on…

One of the finest composers of the modern age, Yoko Kanno is a legend to fans of anime. To the rest of the world, she is practically unknown. In late 1998, the journalist Oliver Barder found himself sitting down to talk music with one of Britain’s…