Category: posterity

The loss of the OceanGate submarine in late 2023 didn’t really shock me much. On one hand, I knew first-hand that carbon fiber was a terrible material for submarines. Having tried to build a molded battery shell for my college RoboSub team back in 2017, I couldn’t imagine scaling up the material that I found…

In Dune, a fiction novel released nearly sixty years ago, the brutally exploitative tech-enabled Harkonnen use remotely-piloted kamikaze drones, “Hunter-Seekers,” to conduct assassinations of their political enemies. More than a decade ago, the advent of ArduPilot brought quadcopters and drones in general from the cutting edge of technology to the hands of hobbyists and consumers.…