The Battle Between Macroculture and Microculture Is Turning into a War
Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker
Topic
Technology
A collection of 166 issues
How Have These Ten Extensions Changed Us?
Toward the end of his life, Marshall McLuhan provided a list of the ten things that have changed us the most.
Perhaps the biggest difference between childhood and adulthood is time. The adult frantically looks for more time. The child looks for ways to fill time.
I filled a lot
How to Think about the Cell Phone
Weapon of Self-Destruction or Tool of Self-Improvement:
The cell phone. Is it a great thing? A useful thing? An annoying thing? An addicting thing?
A ton of writers have condemned the cell phone on all sorts of grounds. They’re tired of rude talkers who use it in restaurants, parks,
A.I. and the Search for the Human
Norman Fiering at Law & Liberty
The Neon God
Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule
Our Modern Superpowers are the Worst
Welcome, Heroes, to the Training Grounds of our new lives.
We have been bitten by the spider descendent of the Industrial and Digital Revolutions, and we have been given a host of new superpowers and they only come with a few drawbacks.
You know how this goes: it seems every
The Unfortunate Ubiquity of Smartphones
Bill Kauffman at The Spectator
Bill Kauffman has Never Owned a Cell Phone
Kauffman sightings have grown increasingly scarce. It's too bad. He's great. His most recent offering at The Spectator is mediocre (by Kauffman standards), but it's worth posting for the lede itself: he couldn't order a bagel at an airport because he doesn&
QR Codes Aren't Evil
They just feel that way. We ought to be asking "why?"
Front Porch Republic and Modernity
If you weren't aware, Front Porch Republic is the Internet's premier proponent of localism. Bill Kauffman started it (with others, if memory serves). Though he doesn't make a lot of appearances there, the site is in the talented hands of Jeff Bilbro, who puts