Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10622066
Dana Calacci
IN EARLY 2020, gig workers for the app-based delivery company Shipt noticed something strange about their paychecks. The company, which had been acquired by Target in 2017 for US $550 million, offered same-day delivery from local stores. Those deliveries were made by Shipt workers, who shopped for the items and drove them to customers' doorsteps. Business was booming at the start of the pandemic, as the COVID-19 lockdowns kept people in their homes, and yet workers found that their paychecks had become... unpredictable. They were doing the same work they'd always done, yet their paychecks were often less than they expected. And they didn't know why.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10622060
Harry Goldstein
When Senior Editor Tekla S. Perry started in this magazine's New York office in 1979, she was issued the standard tools of the trade: notebooks, purple colored pencils for making edits and corrections on page proofs, a push-button telephone wired into a WATS line for unlimited long distance calling, and an IBM Selectric typewriter, “the latest and greatest technology, from my perspective,” she recalled recently.
1979 年，资深编辑泰克拉-佩里（Tekla S. Perry）刚到本杂志纽约办公室工作时，她领到的是标准的工作工具：笔记本、用于在页面校样上进行编辑和修改的紫色彩色铅笔、接在 WATS 线路上可无限拨打长途电话的按键式电话，以及一台 IBM Selectric 打字机，"在我看来，这是最新、最先进的技术"，她最近回忆说。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10622059
Samuel K. Moore
In March, India announced a major investment to establish a semiconductor-manufacturing industry. With US $15 billion in investments from companies, state governments, and the central government, India now has plans for several chip-packaging plants and the country's first modern chip fab as part of a larger effort to grow its electronics industry.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10622065
Allison Marsh
In 1947, a bulldozer operator named Jess M. Ritchie and a prominent physical chemist named Merle Randall began to market AD-X2, an additive they claimed extended the life of lead-acid batteries. Consumers raved about the results, and yet the National Bureau of Standards could not substantiate the claims when it tested the product. The dispute devolved into a politically fraught, multiyear affair involving Senate hearings, a post office ban, the resignation of the NBS director, and his reinstatement after more than 400 scientists threatened to resign in protest. The drama that played out in the press pitted an up-from-your-bootstraps David against an overreaching governmental Goliath. In the end, though, science won.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589677
Allison Marsh
In 1993, well before Google Glass debuted, the artist Lisa Krohn designed a prototype wearable computer that looked like no other. The Cyberdesk was an experiment in augmented reality, fusing fashion with function to extend the user's senses. The four circles along the breastbone are a four-key keyboard with a large trackball at the top center. A small microphone lies against the throat, and an earpiece hooks into the left ear. Krohn imagined the yellow tube in front of the right eye as a retinal scan display that would project a laser beam directly onto the back of the eye, creating a screen centered in the user's field of view. Krohn never built a working version of the Cyberdesk. Rather, she viewed it as “strategic foresight, speculative technology, predictive design, or design fiction.” And it's yet another case where art, like science fiction, has the uncanny ability to anticipate the future.
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