In 1968, I went to work as an editor at The Film Group in Chicago. We made commercials for money and documentaries for love. I was a green kid from the suburbs.…
All Things Connected
I love the Olympics. When the games came to Los Angeles in 1984, my children and I hung out every day with the athletes at the Olympic Village in Westwood. The spirit…
Linda McCartney said, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” My great shame is a love of a good, rare steak. What do you expect from a kid out…
Ben Franklin, I wish I could resurrect you for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES ) in Vegas. Ever since you put that key on the kite, electronics inventors have gone crazy…
Back in the day, you could meet someone to date through friends, work, activities, hobbies, religious affiliations, clubs, parties, concerts, marches, bars or other serendipitous meeting places. One, often excruciating, way to…
My beloved editor, Flavia Potenza, named this column “All Things Connected.” I’ve been thinking about that while picking a subject to write about at this most wonderful time of the year. I…
Words are symbols for objects and concepts. We hear the word, dog, and we have an immediate understanding of what the word means. So, what the heck does Internet of Things (IoT)…
In the jungle of northern Panama, a shocking image seared into my psyche. I came upon a slashed clearing in the pristine greenery crammed with mountains of black plastic garbage bags. On…
We, good neighbors, are creating a history lesson that future people will study looking back at the dawn of technology. Given that we hold that place on the timeline of human existence,…
My father, a world class story-teller, invented the 16mm Ampro projector. He never forgot the technologies he was developing were simply new platforms from which to practice an art as old as…