The Secure Digital (“SD card”) logo was contributed to the the SD-3C license clearinghouse by Toshiba, who had trademarked it as the logo for Super Density Disc optical disc for video content. But the DVD alliance beat the Toshiba technology, and Super Density was abandoned—except for the logo.

So if you wonder why the D in a logo for a solid state memory card looks like a laser disc, now you know why.

‘Older people sit down and ask, “What is it?” but the boy asks, “What can I do with it?”‘

/via https://genius.com/David-sheff-playboy-interview-steve-jobs-annotated

Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).

In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.

The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.

...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.

https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/