“Things are good!” At 4am, knowing that it’s the 4am that you’ve been dragged back to from a sleep that…
Myths Gave Way To Climate Change
They may also help us solve it. “When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the…
We Cannot Amuse Ourselves to Death
And that is far more worrying than the idea that we could. “Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain…
The Potency of Purpose
“Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency…
The Death of Advertising
And what will rise from its ashes. The presence of advertising in our daily lives is akin to that of water in the…
The Information Market
Capitalism’s Takeover of the Final Good “What is the goal of economics?” My Principles of Microeconomics professor, a lithe figure with…
Finding the Road
A follow-up to “Sugar-Coating Facebook” In the wake of my post about Facebook a little over a month ago, I…
Doubt the Amazon Echo? Don’t.
On January 9th, 2007, anxious attendees of a particularly buzzy Apple keynote sat in the Bill Graham Auditorium in downtown…
Sugar-Coating Facebook
Sixty years ago, in the midst of a national healthcare epidemic, health experts deemed fat, and specifically saturated fat, to…
Obsessed with your Smartphone?
So is everyone else. Here’s why. Unwrapping an iPhone is like opening the door to a better life. Not only…