A Model Media Ecologist

  Robert K. Blechman’s "Twitstery Twilogy" comprised of the novels "Executive Severance," "The Golden Parachute,...

  Generally higher tax rates after WWII made public goods like affordable education and necessary public works a possibility. The post-war G...

Media Literacy is a misleading term. First of all media “literacy” is a partial oxymoron. While you can become “literate” in chirographic (a...

All cultures manufacture consent, ie. a shared mythology, employing the medium of communication available to them.   Time binding cultures s...

Here at last in one post are all the great reviews, awards and notices for Executive Severance ! First there Andrey Miroshnichenko...

All ghost stories are optimistic, not scary. They assume we continue after death, even if our afterlife ambitions always seem to be fixate...

Keep in mind that Putin isn't as smart as he thinks he is. For his social media machinations to be really effective...

The Statue of Liberty protest was all about optics, not disruption.The people whose vacations were disrupted were random tourists from a...

Funny how Nicholas Carr's  " How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds " in the October 6, 2017 1 issue of the Wall Street Journ...

My former wife is native Venezuelan and I met her while we were both in graduate school in New York City in the 70's. We would watch Ame...

Why the recent global fascination with the super hero genre? Is it just the advances in CGI allows realistic portrayals of unrealistic abi...

When I was young and people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always replied "First man on the moon." Then Neil Armstr...

Before we condemn Bill Maher we should consider the fact that we are ALL racists. He is a racist. You are a racist. I am a racist. That I ...

Just watched Trump inaugural manager Tom Barrack on Meet the Press. Barrack is a slick character, good at twisting the truth to put lipstick...

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Click to link to Amazon I deal extensively with some of the implications of the Singularity in "I Tweet, Therefore I Am" ...