Articles Tagged with social trends

In praise of mediocrity

Home entertainment

When you can get world-class entertainment at the touch of a button, why would you do it yourself?

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Changing the world, or not

Recording sight and sound

Some inventions change society; others don’t.  Why?

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Inside and outside (I)

Opening the window

Should you always make sharp distinctions?

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An audio culture

The book, the movie and the radio play

We ponder how the medium affects the story.

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A video culture?

The way we communicate

Is the written word no longer important?

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Industrial science

Gravity’s next step

We notice an area of science where theories are so numerous a system has been imposed to keep track.

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The last little bit

No improvement yet?

Sometimes you make no progress until everything’s done.

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It’s quiet

Noticing what’s not there

Much has changed.  It won’t stay that way.

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One of the in-crowd

Doing popular things

We come to contradictory conclusions.

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A long time

Changes

What is “permanent” depends on your point of view.

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