Saturday, December 12, 2009

THIS DECADE'S ILLNESS

TO SEE:
Onion Report

THIS WEEK'S BOOK



Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White, Jr.
Examination of social changes as armed conflict shifted more to cavalry and hence the need for more land for to grow feed for horses... and more.
The point: we live in a very, very dynamic world. Snapshots of a the past are the best we can hope for and gawd help us if we use them as vision of the future.
I think McLuhan said: We look at the present in a rear view mirror

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