Category: Art & Society

Why is architecture in the U.S., and particularly in my home of Seattle, so boring? I’m sure there are reasons, but I don’t really know what they are. Will no one take a chance? Like this example of daring future architecture, the Kempinski Hotel...

Over the next decade more of us will access more of the Internet more often using more wearable tech devices. They will be related mostly to convenience, notices of things we need to attend to, and personal health monitoring applications. Web site operators will...

Back in 2012 the U.S. Census bureau released numbers forecasting that, in the U.S., the non-Hispanic white population – the historical majority – will peak in 2024 at 244 million. That demographic group will then begin a slow decline in actual numbers while the...

As the global oligarchy absorbs an ever greater share of wealth, other winds will blow and the wheel of history will turn. This is from today’s Charlie Pierce at Esquire, and he titled it Easter Rising at 98, his “favorite version of his favorite...