Dear Reader– Here we are at the end of another year devastated by COVID and the variants. People are emotionally frayed, hair-trigger impatient, and more than slightly nuts. Kids are caught in the middle between what is safe, and what adults believe. Their education and social development are spotty and disrupted. Supply chains are missing […]
Full Attention
October 29, 2012 __________________________________________________________________________________________ A recent review in THE WEEK asks this question: “Facebook: Are social media making us lonely?” Stephen Marche in The Atlantic states: “Thanks to texting, Facebook, Google+, and Twitter, Americans now live in a “web of connection” in which we can reach everyone we know in just a fraction of a […]
“Are We Acting Crazy?”
September 24, 2012 “Are we acting crazy?’ is a question Larry D. Rosen asks in the opening pages of his new book- iDisorder. My answer is: “Absolutely!” Curiosity and a need to understand why we are so nuts, – has led me into an investigation of technology’s impact upon our world and culture. Since people don’t […]