Threatening technology
New technology has been forecast to bring social disaster several times in the past. We seem to have avoided it; but that doesn’t mean we always will.
Disaster this time?
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A modern irritation
School’s out
Reading the manuscript
Why handwriting?
Communication in writing nowadays is almost exclusively done in type. Why, then, should anyone care about being able to write legibly?
When predictions are wrong
The role of science fiction
Today’s world doesn’t look like most science fiction stories pictured it. But accurate prediction isn’t the main point of the genre.
It’s alarming
Many things want our attention. They can’t all have it
Life always seems to get louder and more insistent. There are reasons for this, though it’s not a good trend.
Plato’s fallacy
Education is good, but it has its limits
A scientist cautions against the idea behind the philosopher-king.
Somone else’s poetry
Why read something you don’t care for?
A minor matter of a subscription raises a point of vital importance.
The postures of photography
Conforming to the machine
Our photographer notices how a new technology forces our bodies into new positions.
Science and the long shot
Why new discoveries are over-hyped
We often hear of new scientific results that promise great things, especially in the health field, but then hear no more of them. Most scientific ideas don’t work out. Why, then, do we still hear the hype?