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It’s commonly known that in the pre-print age people relied on their memories to store information, but it is not commonly realized just what this entails. When we think of memorizing something, we think in terms of learning something by rote, so that we could recite it if called upon to do so. The medieval memory went far beyond that. The art of memory was not merely about holding information, but about processing [...] This current economic depression has made mincemeat of the job market. It is forcing a lot of people to adapt in ways they didn’t expect. I do not expect that the jobs will recover very quickly, and many jobs are clearly gone for good. This is the growing new reality: we are all generalists [...] I have learned just in the last couple of days that there is some guy named “LeBron” who is apparently some sports figure. He is in the spotlight about something, probably having to do, directly or indirectly, with money. At least one large ego may be involved. Don’t know, don’t [...] I was intrigued to see an interesting article on the website of American Scientist magazine about the problem of the volatility of the data that narrates our civilization. The article, “Avoiding a Digital Dark Age” by Kurt Bollacker describes in detail several examples of how our high-tech world fails to imbue our information stream with [...] As we have come to expect, Maker Faire this past weekend was a feast for the inventive, the curious. I think we can now say without fear of contradiction that “Makers” are not merely a sub-category of geekdom, but a full-blown movement. This year’s theme was “Remaking America”, something I have advocated on the pages [...] Yesterday’s Editorial Observer column of the New York Times carried an interesting and through-provoking piece by Verlyn Klinkenborg on “Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud.” In it Klinkenborg compares the growing popularity of audio books with the practice of reading aloud as was common in the 19th century (and obviously long before [...] A typical binocular spotting scope, soon to become a nifty telephoto lens. If you are visiting some open space district or county or state park where public telescopes like the one shown in the photo on the left. You might be able to use your digital camera to make shots of remarkably distant objects. I have [...] A couple of weeks ago the New York Times ran an opinion piece by Virginia Heffernan entitled “Let Them Eat Tweets: Why Twitter is a Trap“. This article was, in turn, a response to a presentation by author and idea man extraordinaire Bruce Sterling at the South by Southwest conference. In his talk he held [...] Amazon’s second generation Kindle, the D00511. Recent months have seen an increase of posts and news items on the coming eBook revolution. This way of delivering books has been a bit slower to catch on than proponents had hoped. The Amazon Kindle reader was touted as the solution to the many reasons why readers weren’t taking [...] |
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