An excerpt from E.B. White’s New Yorker essay, “The World of Tomorrow”, in which he responds to the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair. His thoughts are not only beautifully articulated in classic E.B. White style, but the questions and concerns he raises have a great deal of relevance in our current approaches to [...]

I haven’t been posting here much lately, and it’s because I’ve been using Tumblr a lot. I really like the ease of use for posting and the social functionality built in to it. I’m still figuring out what I want to do going forward — I might continue to keep cog + sprocket as a [...]

There has been a lot of reaction to the piece published in the Times earlier this week about the negative effects of multitasking and hyperconnectivity. Most of it has been either been further hand-wringing over how much of a problem this is, or a rejection of the idea that there is any problem to begin [...]