History and the Agentic Era

 Hannah Arendt, following the Second World War, was very familiar with the idea that fewer and fewer of us were writing our own history. That was being done by others. Today, as we look ahead to what these others have chosen to call the Agentic Era, we human beings, all of us, might never write our own history again. 

Old Age in the 21st Century

 When you spend most of your day wondering whether you remembered to take your pills

Omens

 Oh shoot! Snowbirds in with the Chipping Sparrows

Iphone Angst

 With Siri I have to use the bossier of the girl's voices, there's less shouting. If it's a boy's voice it really doesn't go well,