Today is 1-1-10 and just about everyone I know with a blog has done some form of New Year's post; year-in-review, predictions-for-coming-year, new-year-resolutions, word-count-redux, etc ( Read more... )

This is a kind of reverse futurism: 'How Sputnik changed your life'.

As always with Ken, the essay swerves all over the epistemological map; pushing memes before it into a gigantic, tangled heap that somehow looks like a patchwork temple to Athena when he gets to the last sentence. (How does he do that?)