“Mr. N.Y. Times, tear down this wall”

I sympathize with the New York Times. They’re a venerable institution with a long history of being a respected source for news, but I think they’re making a big mistake by moving behind a “paywall” in 2011. This is a case of an old media company not having the guts to stick to a new [...]

Augmented Reality as another re-envisioning of the future that never happened

As children, many people were brought up on the science-fiction of the 1970′s and 1980′s. There seemed to be a bounty of promise in this vision of a 3D virtualized, “everything at your fingers” holographic world.  ”Augmented Reality” seems to be another attempt to reconstruct the idyllic science-fiction fantasies of many adult’s childhood and less [...]

The MTA; another way out?

These images are taken from Benajmin over at Second Avenue Sagas, and I’m borrowing them as a great historical image about the power of transit construction, to summarize the point he very elegantly makes, but the story of New York’s development pattern is highly related to subway construction. Flushing is shown in the top image [...]