An experience of "the ballet of the good city sidewalk" in Montreal.

Our top posts from 2020 for readers' enjoyment!

It’s a strange experience in 2020 to value the constrained experience of an old Walkman more than the everything-right-now proposition of Spotify.

Postman describes the dangers of an instant and functionally unlimited media environment.

I read the words, but I don't read the poems, not really.

Ivan Illich and his concept of "conviviality" can help guide us toward better choices, and better communication, in 2020.

Remote work should give people more freedom and flexibility, but how we use that freedom matters.

How we react to someone’s behaviour has a lot to do with the stories we tell ourselves. How can we tell better stories?

The machinery of the new technocracy was most efficient when people were seen not as “children of God or even citizens but as consumers—that is to say, as markets.”

Cultures, Postman says, can be divided into tool-using societies, technocracies, and finally, technopolies. Let's begin with tools.

Where Bake-Off took the venom out of cooking competitions, Gardeners’ World forgoes any contest at all. Instead, viewers tune in to Monty Don, and other presenters and guests, as he offers practical gardening advice and radiates appreciation for the slow, quiet world of things that grow.

Reading Neil Postman Series – In the opening chapter of Technopoly, Postman makes a case for taking technological change seriously. The cultural transformation caused by new technologies happens quickly, but it doesn’t have to happen thoughtlessly.

Not everything scales. Mass texts do not perform the same function as a knock at the door.

If we’re already deep in what Postman called technopoly, we shouldn’t slouch towards whatever comes next. Join Matt Civico in thinking through Technopoly in 2020.