A Charming Suggestion: Bring Back the Tickets
Bailey Sincox at Public Books
Topic
Technology
A collection of 178 issues
Ben Franklin and the Mouse
How I finally accepted multi-tasking
It had been there for years, but I had never noticed it.
Until one morning when I found myself with a telephone receiver tucked under my neck while I talked with an acquaintance, a computer mouse in my hand while I surfed the Internet,
Cell Phones, Radio, and the Philosophy of Marshall McLuhan
“Hot” media and “cool” media were McLuhan’s buzz dichotomy. A hot medium is one that extends one of our senses. A cool medium is one that requires a lot from one of our senses.
The Battle Between Macroculture and Microculture Is Turning into a War
Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker
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
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