Riiven Threads

Pull a thread. See what it unravels.

Every technology you take for granted is a convergence of separate fields of science, developed over decades by people who never met. We trace the threads and visualize them.

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8 Fields Converge 8 fields

JPEG

You've looked at millions of JPEGs. Every one discards roughly 90% of its data, carefully, exactly where your eyes cannot see.

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8 Fields Converge 8 fields

GPS

Einstein's relativity is hidden in your phone's map app. And seven other fields you've never connected to it.

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New Thread every week. Each one takes a technology you use daily and traces it back to the independent fields of science that made it possible.