Zeitgeist: Superman’s First Comic Sells Online for $1m

Action Comics No.1 (1938), the first appearance of Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. Earlier this week Action Comics No. 1, which features the first appearance of Superman, sold online for a record-brea...CLICK TO READ MORE

The iPad: 3 Reasons Why a Built-In Camera Will Make It a Must-Have Device

Steve Jobs holding up the iPad, to be released in April 2010. Rumors that Apple’s highly anticipated iPad will ship with a webcam gives me reason to believe that Steve Jobs’ tablet from on high is, indeed, t...CLICK TO READ MORE

Wiki-counter-terrorism & Social Surveillance

An MQ-1 Predator drone returned from a mission to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan with a new paintjob, courtesy of StevenDuque.com. In his book Wikinomics, business strategist Don Tapscott writes: “Employees drive p...CLICK TO READ MORE

The Counterculture of Our Future: 'Jacked In' versus 'Checked Out'

It’s appropriate, I think, that the first post of this blog covers a subject characterized by all four categories of the blog’s tagline – “media, technology, culture and life.” The idea for...CLICK TO READ MORE

The Counterculture of Our Future: 'Jacked In' versus 'Checked Out'

January 16th, 2010 Culture, Life, Media, Stuff, Technology 18 Comments

It’s appropriate, I think, that the first post of this blog covers a subject characterized by all four categories of the blog’s tagline – “media, technology, culture and lif.