There was the Outernet. This graphic needs no explanation, I think: The benefits we’ve gained through Internet and cell phone technologies are incalculable. But it could also be said that some of our resulting losses—the human qualities and activities displaced (temporarily or permanently) by these technologies are also incalculable. What are ways that you have found to continue lifestyle choices of a simpler time? Things such as interacting with people in real time face-to-face or of engaging in activities together as a unit instead of together in name only while each person lives in their own separate world (“alone together”)? [...] Read more »
Reputation vs. Character
It has always been true that reputations can be made and destroyed more quickly than one might think possible. During election years it becomes even more obvious: you cannot control your reputation. You can do the very best you can to do the right thing at the right place and time, but all it takes is one person or event to shatter a lifetime’s worth of work in one fell swoop. And the onset of 24-hour news cycles hasn’t helped the truth to come out any sooner than it used to: if anything, the 1500 TV talking heads help cement [...] Read more »