What kind of crazy society would allow—and nourish—such a ridiculous manufactured landscape? Do we desire vacations to escape or embrace consumer culture? Or both? “Our ability to shut the destroyed… Read more Nature and Manufactured Landscapes: A Quintessentially American Vacation? →
In his 1992 book The Age of Missing Information, author and environmentalist Bill McKibben seeks answers to what constitutes real information in our age of increasingly accessible images, print, audio,… Read more Review: The Age of Missing Information →
Google’s Project Glass disturbs me. If you didn’t know, Google is working on a prototype set of eye glasses that are networked, potentially giving users an “augmented” brain, making a multitude of communication forms and information instantaneously accessible. Google co-founder Sergey Brin admitted at a conference in July that the project has a long way to go, but the project’s ambition is huge. This would fundamentally changes how we experience day to day life. Constant multitasking. Constant information overload potential. Constant screen time. Is this what we want? Is this… Read more Google’s Project Glass–Count Me Out. →
Paul Barnwell 