Month: November 2016
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Me and Automatic Doors
Someone once predicted that automatic doors would never catch on. Oh, yeah, that someone was me. It just proves how awful is my track record as a predictor of trends and technology. I don’t recall where or when I saw my first automatic sliding door. Hospital? Library? Grocery store? Being a kid, though, I remember…
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Did We Just Trade Away the Internet?
Did we just trade away the Internet? It sure looks that way. Don’t take me too literally. We’ll always have something called “the Internet”. It just won’t necessarily be the real Internet, the one we’ve come to take for granted. By which I mean the open Internet – the one featuring a precious jewel called “net…
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One Word: So
Reader Paul Ruff notes that “so” is replacing “like” as the all-purpose, meaningless word with which to start a sentence. We used to hear conversations such as: “Like, I’m going skydiving tomorrow.” “Like, wow, that’s awesome!” “Like, without a parachute!” “Isn’t that like, dangerous?” “Like, I’m using Google Cardboard, silly.” Today it seems we’re more…
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Uncharted Waters
Of all the post election punditry I’ve read, one insight especially stood out to me: The critics of our new president-elect took him (a) literally but not seriously. His supporters took him (b) seriously but not literally. A thought occurs: What if it turns out we should have taken him (c) both literally and seriously,…
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R.I.P. Leonard Cohen
I don’t have a favorite Leonard Cohen song. I wouldn’t know how. If I had to pick five faves, however, one of them would be “Crazy to Love You”. Here’s the rendition by the mesmerizing Anjani Thomas: R.I.P. #leonardcohen. After God made you, Big Guy, He #brokethemold! None of us had to go crazy to…