What's Been and What's Ben

I recently speed reread Plague Time – a book about evolutionary biology applied to infectious disease. The Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA) was responsible in the words of George Clooney in O Brother, Where Art Thou to “hydroelectric up the whole darn state”, but really they did so much more. It is a lesson of what [...]

Ben, the futurist, reporting for duty! I was rereading the book plague time: the new germ theory of disease that I apparently finished reading on the 8th of June 2002. It offered inspiration for another of my entries, but this is about futurists getting it right. By the 1960 sci-fi writers go the portable handheld [...]