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Believing we have all the technology we’ll ever need, we seek to draw attention to its destructive side effects. This seems foolish… —Neal Stephenson, Innovation Starvation It is the first day of a new month. Does that mean anything? Not really, but it’s a convenient thing to kick me in to writing again. Can we [...]
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