January 14, 2017

Janan Ganesh on “history’s luckiest generation” and J G Ballard on the moon landings

In today’s FT weekend there is an interesting column by Janan Ganesh (who I previously featured on this blog) on how, given our times are in so many ways disconnected…

November 6, 2016

“the primacy of the material world over the digital”

From Janan Ganesh’s “Notebook” column in the FT, 29/10/16 (firewalled): As the internet stirred at the turn of the 1990s, its distance-closing properties were talked up. Speculative accounts of the near-future…