Tag: The Technium

Lagniappe Sunday

Read the full post here. Vairal Video 4 is doing consistently great ST commentary. Quote: “The great European cathedrals were built over generations by thousands of people and sustained entire communities. Similarly, the electric grid, the public-water supply, the food-distribution network, and the public-health system took the collective labor of thousands of people over many…

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Lagniappe Sunday

An intro to a series of four essays in The New Atlantic called “We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It.” Quote: ” But despite [Jefferson’s] wealth and status his home was so cold in winter that the ink in his pen sometimes froze, making it difficult for him to write to complain about the…

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