If the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland (the 1951 Disney film) used a smartphone, would his passing by a curious Alice have been less panicky? Are you a multi-tasker? Over the years, real-time task juggling has been praised. Multi-tasking […]

[Draft 3-21-2025 – teaser] Owl & rabbit – a 21st century fable (a matter of fidelity) Part 1 For a village with little complaint, the night was sprinkled with screams. Those nights. These were not timbres of terror. These were […]

[Draft 3-24-2025] Pay attention! You’re at a cocktail party … or maybe in a social setting with your family … your attention is selective – like moving a spotlight around a stage, or tuning between foreground & background channels. Did […]

I was reminded recently of the book Small Is Beautiful. Does its economic philosophy still pertain to today’s world? I still have the original 1973 paperback (book cover photos). Evidently the book is not available in digital (Kindle) format on […]

Fox & the ants (interdependency) It was a lean season in the valley. Even an abandoned scarecrow had been stripped of its straw, ripped to rags moving in a dry breeze. Faceless. A solitary, scrawny fox had slowly descended into […]

Pondering the 21st century freemium 2.0 landscape … Terms of the Tree (resistance is futile) imagine … A splendid mythological garden … light glints marvelously from the surface of a tranquil creek nearby … on a mild rise, a magnificent […]

I’ve had some long conversations with an aspiring screenwriter about a collection of short stories, with a working title of The Ditbit’s Guide to Blending in with AIs. An evolving landscape: The great realignment of humans and AIs left a […]

This article (below) is an interesting take on a classic fable, one of Aesop’s. Like the fable The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Fox & the Grapes [1] is part of the moral fabric of the American psyche (and elsewhere). […]

My personal word of the year is demonize. But … A commentary on how “we are using our free time” … an ongoing “cultural conversation about humanity and technology.” • AP News > “How to sum up 2024? The Oxford […]

Pondering the big picture, what has changed in the last 100 years or so … This article (republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license) is a useful recap of our understanding of human evolution, and an excellent visualization […]