MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Guest op-ed by David Sax @ NYTimes.com Sunday Review, Nov. 18
[....] Ten years after the iPhone first swept us off our feet, the growing mistrust of computers in both our personal lives and the greater society we live in is inescapable [....]
This surprising reversal of fortune for these apparently “obsolete” analog technologies is too often written off as nostalgia for a predigital time. But younger consumers who never owned a turntable and have few memories of life before the internet drive most of the current interest in analog, and often include those who work in Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies [....]
In a world of endless email chains, group chats, pop-up messages or endlessly tweaked documents and images, the walled garden of analog saves both time and inspires creativity. Web designers at Google have been required to use pen and paper as a first step when brainstorming new projects for the past several years, because it leads to better ideas than those begun on a screen [....]
Comments
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 10:01pm
Tulipp hysteria and whatnot, just another pyramid scheme if you're really talking about cryptocurrenciesn and thwre aretgingw blickchain doesnt do well (analog maybe?)
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/19/2017 - 12:00am