The Hound of Hell

This our reality: the Machine and the Mechanical Hound.

Displaced in Place

A storm is blowing us apart. And as was experienced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we feel a pervasive sense of displacement, of being refugees in our own country, of living in the space before and after the imposed transformation of our culture.

A Bugger’s Life

Harry Caul: Listen, if there’s one sure fire rule that I have learned in this business is I don’t know anything about human nature. I don’t know anything about curiosity. That’s not part of what I do.

Have an Analog New Year

Analog concerns are human concerns whereas digital concerns are about data collection and modifying consumer’s behavior with choice architecture and ‘nudges” toward a profitable end for the “conditioners.”

Not Heard, Herded

“Whip the groaning masses towards . . . a theoretical future happiness, which only we[f] can see”?

Frankenscience

“Be careful what you wish for” I hear Shelly prophetically say.

Moving On

“Human enhancement technology,” he said.

Altered States

“Technique has penetrated the deepest recesses of the human being. The machine tends not only to create a new human environment, but also to modify man’s very essence. The milieu in which he lives is no longer his. He must adapt himself, as though the world were new, to a universe for which he was…