The Childless City

Via Instapundit and City Journal: …we have embarked on an experiment to rid our cities of children. In the 1960s, sociologist Herbert Gans identified a growing chasm between family-oriented suburbanites and people who favored city life—“the rich, the poor, the...

The Childless City

Via Instapundit and City Journal: …we have embarked on an experiment to rid our cities of children. In the 1960s, sociologist Herbert Gans identified a growing chasm between family-oriented suburbanites and people who favored city life—“the rich, the poor, the...

What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

Via Instapundit and Smithsonian Magazine: …Jaron Lanier and the ideology he helped create, Web 2.0 futurism, digital utopianism, which he now calls “digital Maoism,” indicting “internet intellectuals,” accusing giants like Facebook and Google of being “spy agencies.”...

What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

Via Instapundit and Smithsonian Magazine: …Jaron Lanier and the ideology he helped create, Web 2.0 futurism, digital utopianism, which he now calls “digital Maoism,” indicting “internet intellectuals,” accusing giants like Facebook and Google of being “spy agencies.”...

Confessions Of A New York City Doorman

Via Business Insider: In the half hour we talked to Pablo he greeted at least 20 residents and five workmen coming and going  (in English and Spanish); made at least ten calls upstairs to announce visitors; helped someone who had the wrong address; answered a...

Confessions Of A New York City Doorman

Via Business Insider: In the half hour we talked to Pablo he greeted at least 20 residents and five workmen coming and going  (in English and Spanish); made at least ten calls upstairs to announce visitors; helped someone who had the wrong address; answered a...