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Archive for December, 2005

Review: Technopoly, by Neil Postman

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Overall rating: 5/5
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology is a provocative, highly entertaining book. As you may expect from Postman (or from the in-your-face subtitle), this is not a paean to technology. Rather, it is a warning that technology comes at a high cost, a subtle, slow process in which humanity turns [...]

The Christmas Entry

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Christmas was a wonderful time at the Gamboa household this year. Mona’s brother, Kenneth, is spending time with us, and my parents came down for the holidays. So our Christmas is full of family cheer. Mona cooked a wonderful Christmas meal (which we all ate), and everybody was happy with their Christmas [...]