A Large Regular has Neil Gaiman's video on "The Wonderful Weirdness of Water."
Monday, January 03, 2022
First Paragraph
The first signs of the next shift began to reveal themselves to me on a spring afternoon in the year 2000. That was when I began to notice people on the streets of Tokyo staring at their mobile phones instead of talking to them. The sight of this behavior, now commonplace, in much of the world, triggered a sensation I have experienced a few times before - the instant recognition that a technology is going to change my life in ways I can scarcely imagine. Since the practice of exchanging short test messages via mobile telephones has led to the eruption of subcultures in Europe and Asia. At least one government has fallen, in part because of the way people used text messaging. Adolescent mating rituals, political activism, and corporate management styles have mutated in unexpected ways.
- From Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold
[Photo by Beth Macdonald at Unsplash]
Sunday, January 02, 2022
Saturday, January 01, 2022
Questionable Progress
Was it actually moral to discard the "content of our character" and "equal opportunity" principles of the prior Civil Rights movement of 60 years ago? Are their replacement fixations on the "color of our skin" and "equality of result" superior?
Read all of Victor Davis Hanson's essay in Real Clear Politics.
A Big Wave
Universities. Elementary and high schools. Corporations. Churches. The news media. Professional organizations. Political parties. Big tech. School boards. Hollywood.
What is coming their way?
A wave of changes.
And 2022 will simply be the beginning.
[Photo by Matt Paul Catalano at Unsplash]
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