There Is Only War

In gen­eral, this blog is osten­si­bly about envi­ron­men­tal and dig­i­tal his­tory. This post, how­ever, marks a brief diver­gence from those themes, mainly in the inter­est of get­ting some­thing posted in June. As such and as a long time sci­ence fic­tion fan, I can­not resist post­ing these trail­ers for Halo: Reach: This last one, of course, has not­ing to […]

iPhone Cyber­punk

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, […]