Technopolis

                                               Mario Savio arrested in an attempt to speak at a                                          ...

                                                  James Cagney in "White Heat" (1949) Stop Me Before I Lecture Again! ...

Recently, in my class on Design, Culture and Society at Rensselaer, we've been talking about humor and creativity.  I made the classi...

I recently received word that one of the world's most positive and influential centers for the confluence of artistic, technical an...

  I recently did a radio interview with author/teacher/activist Charlene Sprenak on the Progressive Radio Network.  We talked about tech...

                                                      Still shrouded in mystery Unanswered questions about Benghazi: 1.   ...

                                                                The Smart Cup   Although little noticed in the trade papers, this gadget...

My top ten predictions for 2014 1.  The success of Republican obstructionism in prolonging the Great Recession will produce a voter bac...

    Here are some excerpts from a new book by Jeffrey R. Young, Beyond the MOOC Hype ,  an excellent, brief discussion of a variety o...

                    Proponents of Swiss guaranteed income initiative dump a truck load of money                     in front of the parl...

Where are we?  Who are we with?  And what are we doing?  What's that over there?  Who knows?  Who cares? Gray Brechin sent me the o...

                                         Harvesting garlic at Roxbury Farm, Kinderhook, NY   In the region of New York where I live, the...

[With this post I'll begin a series of shorter comments about recent events, longer than the truncated observations I offer on Twitter o...

A Big Hug for Paco By:  Langdon Winner "It's a very fine essay," he said, "and I agree with most of it.  But ...

Remembering Michael Black By: Langdon Winner On my way to a conference in San Francisco last month I learned that Michae...