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Wax Tablets and information warfare

“… Tom Standage has redeemed us. In his well-written and entertaining book, Writing on the Wall: Social Media — The First 2,000 Years, he argues that email, blogs, Twitter and Facebook are simply the...

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From The Harbor of the Long Cut Bank

Before I left on the trip north, I rechecked something — based on my wife’s question as to why what I had mentioned wasn’t on the news. I had mentioned the breaking story on the evening of the 30th...

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What can we do?

  What can we do?   Music audio: Dhafer Youssef & Hüsnü Şenlendirici  ‘dance of the invisible dervishes’  19.07.2012 Istanbul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8n24hAhmEM  (36:50) “What can we do?”...

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‘sense of outrage’

A Sense of Outrage Image source: http://www.whosefaultyvision.com/photoblog/2012/10/24/veiled-face-london/ “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ― Arthur Conan...

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human interaction

human interaction In the age of the internet and smartphones, there is no denying that technology continuously shapes our everyday lives…. featured graphic:...

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death of conversation

death of conversation ”… It seems that the feeling of loneliness is a real epidemic of our society. But why do we feel this way while numerous ways of communication with other human beings are...

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information

information Social Media Is Killing Discourse  Because It’s Too Much Like TV We need more text and fewer videos and memes in the age of Trump. November 29, 2016 music:...

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somebody holds the key

somebody holds the key “Not all that long ago I touted a warning that I felt was about to plague social media in a way the social media complex itself never bargained for. That warning? When...

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going deep

going deep The aforementioned book “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” by Cal Newport was correctly assumed to be an update in a modernized high-tech world (maybe I should call...

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