Kakistocracy Comes to the Anthropocene
The Dream Is Over I recently dreamt that I was interacting with a group of women describing the incoming vice president as someone with “horrible” ideas, someone scary. But they couldn’t remember his name. They had it on the tip of their tongues, but it wouldn’t come out of their mouths. Of course, being as […]
Apple’s Vision Pro: Anthropocean de Jour
I’m a relatively early adopter of technology. For example, I purchased the world’s first portable video recorder, the Sony Portapak, and the world’s first portable computer, the Osborne. I used both extensively. I wrote my doctoral thesis on the Osborne and printed it via a daisy wheel. I purchased an Apple Newton upon release in […]
Fear Makes It Harder, but Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World!
A story: Neil Young and Crazy Horse were coming to town in three months. My ex-wife planned and schemed to get me tickets to see them at the Boston Garden in 1986 as a Father’s Day gift. She went to the box office there when the tickets first became available on a Sunday morning at […]