Category: Essays
Cryptonomicon and the Information Superhighway
When I first read Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, way back in 2003, the novel hit me like a ton of bricks….
The Last Notes of El Capitan
Whenever I got lonely, I used to whistle the last notes of El Capitan. No, not the rock formation in…
Matilda’s Twenty-fifth
Twenty-five years ago this month, Matilda, by Roald Dahl, was first published. I don’t recall the first time I first picked…
On Space Travel and Neil Armstrong
On Saturday, the first person to set foot on another world died. In some ways, it is fantastic how rapidly…
The Cusp
After a certain point, everything become obvious. That, in essence, is the Cusp. Good ideas, once possible, occur to multiple…