Main
Line |
The
Pennsylvania Canal paralleled Pennsylvania rivers nearly two
centuries ago. |
Homes
of the 1870s |
Plain
Italianate Victorian houses abound near my old Ohio home. |
The
Scharf |
Local
inventor drives newfangled car to Columbus looking for investors,
finds none, gives up. I get one of his stock certificates. |
. |
1960 |
The
Very Wide Screen |
The
Thomas family visits a Cinerama movie theater. |
Construction
Toys |
I
build models of buildings with bricks, logs, girders, etc. |
Stadiums |
Playing
fields for football, track, etc., plus a downhill racer. |
. |
1970 |
Broadcast
Stuff |
Fitting
a TV studio into a low-ceilinged room. |
Theatres |
Auditoriums
that will never be built. |
. |
1980 |
Dwellings |
More
ideas, including spirals, mirror effects, and movable walls and
floors that quickly convert bedrooms into extra living space. |
Streets |
Street
plans for imaginary cities. |
All
News All the Time |
If
WOBC were all-news, how would I organize it? |
The
PC-8 Computer |
Using
BASIC to make a tiny computer useful for baseball and boxing telecasts. |
The
MENKY |
The
1988 design for a one-handed computer keyboard. |
. |
1990 |
Powers
of 10 Museum |
An
imagined visit to a museum of models on widely different scales,
from atoms to galaxies. |
Colorblind
Glasses |
Could
tinted lenses help colorblind people? And what about the dogs? |
|
2000 |
How
I Watch Television, 2004 |
On
my high-definition set, I can choose to display the picture from any
of three smaller monitors. |
Preferred
Parking |
Why
must we dash across a busy "street" between mall stores
and their parking spaces? |
Telemeetings |
A
proposal for a standard studio layout for teleconferences. |
How
I Switch TV |
Hooking
up two simple audio/video switches to make a multipurpose routing switcher. |
Silent
Hybrids and Latent Reporters |
How
to fix cars and correspondents that don't sound off when we expect
them to. |
Decisions |
Don't
flip a coin; use this spreadsheet to perform quantitative analysis
of the alternatives. |
So
Obvious |
Why
can't we use computers to shift gears and print out prescriptions? |
Folded
Planes |
The architecture of a church in my neighborhood reminds me of Frank
Lloyd Wright. |