Negative Space: technology changing society
- Apple markets round wheel
- “Not enough corners,” say pundits.
- Cell phones: threat to public safety
- Cell phones are a part of the decentralization of our society; they are a severe threat to those who prefer centralization and restricted channels of access.
- iPods and the future of social interaction
- The iPod--as part of the decentralization of media control--allows us to carve our own spaces, rather than having the “crass commercialization of public space” force us into marketing spaces of someone else’s design.
- The odd expectations of typewriter users
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People who buy typewriters fall into two camps: those who want them to be like computers, and those who don’t recognize computers when they talk directly in their ear.
- To the ends of the earth
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Why don’t we see any evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence? And will we survive long enough to make ourselves known to the universe?
