I had the great pleasure yesterday of giving a talk to the (high school) students of Beaver Country Day School; the general theme (and the impetus for my invitation) was this piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago for Al Jazeera, in which I argued: It is imperative that we teach young people not […]
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“The Internet? Bah!”
Check out these gems from Newsweek, 1995: Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.Baloney. Do our computer […]
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No Justice for Oscar Grant
In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009, responding to reports of fighting on the BART in Oakland, officers arrived on the scene and detained a group of young men. One of the officers, Johannes Mehserle, pinned a young man to the ground, face-down. The young man, Oscar Grant III, may or may […]