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Archive for August, 2009

Multi-task or Mono-task

08.13.2009 · Posted in Writing

I’ve been gnawing on this issue for a while now, especially since as a function of (ahem) age, multi-tasking is not a ready-made skill. Far from it. And, I was absolutely delighted to read this morning, mono-tasking may be re-emerging as an art once lost, now found. It seems like yesterday when my daughter first ...

Book Review

08.03.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner The University of Chicago Press It took me a few moons to do so, but I finally finished Fred Turner’s really captivating From Counterculture to Cyberculture this past weekend and my mind will remain reeling from ...