The smartphone, in my case the iPhone, is the marvel of the digital/personal front of the early 21st century. I feel that I have now — as a purported digital historian (though I think that is a suspect term in its own right) — finally engaged the 21st century in its potential. Of course, as with other tech breakthroughs of the past (the auto, […]
At any location on earth, as the rock record goes down into time and out into earlier geographies it touches upon tens of hundreds of stories, wherein the face of the earth often changed, changed utterly, and changed again, like the face of a crackling fire. The rock beside the road exposes one or two levels […]
I am participating in a panel discussion on “The Public and Private in Media” as a part of an art exhibition: The New Normal. The New Normal examines the issue of private information becoming less private in our technological society. Regardless of how well I present/discuss today, this exhibition has made me reexamine my ideas of the private […]