[Scroll down to view video] Adam Smith’s law of competition is supposed to create an optimal economy of consumers and producers. When a better product appears on the market, the consumer rewards the producer with his or her custom. This spurs the producer’s competitor to create an even better product, etc. ensuring a cycle of […]
Millennium Glitch
[Scroll down to view video] In 1999, the year 2000 was going to be the end of the world. Because of the Y2K bug, our computer-dependent civilization would fall into chaos come New Year’s Day. “Two thousand zero zero/Party over/Oops, out of time.” But Y2K was not a bug; it was a failure of imagination. […]
Conspiracy Theories are the False Flags
[Scroll down to view video] In 1969, as an 11-year old Beatles fan, I learned that Paul was dead. The devastating evidence in the clues laced into songs and album art was irrefutable. My only nagging doubt was how they’d found someone who looked, sounded and wrote songs exactly like Paul McCartney. Since then, the […]
Music Wants to Be Free, Musicians Want to Be Paid
Musician Bemoans Death of the Music Business It all sounded very appealing thirty years ago when a Bay Area programmer first explained to me the concept of the entire catalog of recorded music being accessible from a home computer. I wanted that. But between ’84 and when it actually came to pass, I made a […]
Wake Up from the American Dream
When did the “dream” become a metaphor for ambition? When did dreaming become an entitlement to success for aspiring American Idols? The one thing besides “hard work” necessary for achieving fame and fortune, as we are frequently assured by celebrities? Once upon a time, a dream was in the realm of the imagination, a fancy, […]
