Sublime

The historian David Edgerton, in his book The Shock of the Old, describes the lines along which much contemporary popular thinking about technology tends to run. Obsessions with the technological standouts of the twentieth century—flight, nuclear power, the birth control pill, the internet—are shaped by a myopic and linear view of history, one pred

So long as Substack offers a great publishing platform (and helps grow audiences) they will have enough writers. Yes, Author Development will still be a staffed function and various incentives (such as the well-covered Pro guarantees) may exist, but I’m actually not worried about the ‘supply side’ of their business, at least at the top of the funne

Although he was largely an observer of the technical community that created Silicon Valley, his various ideas and crusades around the Whole Earth Catalog, which he created in the fall of 1968, foreshadow and resonate with the techno-utopian culture that the Valley spawned.