Much like Bruce Springsteen, the rolling power outages of the past couple of months had many of us “dancing in the dark”. But, while the Boss’s rockabilly anthem to a lost generation contemplated some pretty weighty existential questions, the darkness brought about by...
We are living in an age of what has been cleverly called “technological bounty”. This means that technology is so plentiful, and so compelling, that it makes up a considerable part of our social architecture, and it’s certainly enabled some brilliant thinkers,...
While every season certainly has its virtues, none seems to capture the imagination and creative spirit of the artistically-inclined quite like spring. From classic poetry to contemporary art, the blushing beauty of spring is enough to make anyone wax lyrical and,...
It’s no secret that technology (and therefore the world) is changing at an incredible pace. The things that must have seemed like science fiction to past generations are now very much a reality as machines race ahead and accomplish astonishing feats that are nothing...
If one had to plot human social development over the past ten thousand years or so on a graph, one would notice something very interesting: the line remains more or less straight for thousands of years, indicating very slow progress and then, suddenly, it bends...
