Category Archives: technology
News Contractions
The last of the original radio news services, CBS News Radio, will close on May 22, 2026. Below is President Franklin Delano Roosevelt doing one of his famous “fireside chats” in 1940. You probably recognize the NBC and CBS microphones. … Continue reading
Turn Your Radio On
Turn your radio on and listen to the music in the air…is a gospel song written in 1938 by Albert Edward Brumley. Born in 1905 in Indian Territory, near what is now Spiro, Oklahoma, Brumley’s success with I’ll Fly Away … Continue reading
Job Vulnerabilities to AI
The exposure of workers to job displacement by artificial intelligence (AI) has been a topic of interest for several years. Sam Manning & Tomás Aguirre of The Centre for the Governance of AI, joined by Mark Muro and Shriya Methkupally … Continue reading
Friends and Feeds
Do you find yourself spending too much time scrolling on Facebook past random nonsense? Does your inbox get clogged with emails of fresh posts from different online services? If so, here are a couple of strategies that might improve your … Continue reading
The Rise & Fall of the Mass Market Paperback
The mass market paperback is dead. Not all paperback books, mind you, for the larger and more expensive trade paperbacks are still with us. But it shook me to realize that the pocket paperback, which was so important in my … Continue reading
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