Urban Cavemen

Living life out of balance… Balance: A harmonious or satisfying arrangement or proportion of parts or elements In early 2000, I was walking through Manhattan with three friends on our way to meet a fourth member of our party. This was well before cell phones had become so completely pervasive but still, I was the only one in our group without one. I sarcastically commented on this and was prompted mocked as a Luddite. Then it was on to the essential business of figuring out how to

On 20 Years of Soundtracks to Life

Over at the BBC, a teenager named Scott compares an iPod to a Sony Walkman (read it here ). Scott is amused more than baffled by this obsolete technology, although it takes him a while to realize that a cassette tape can be flipped over. On July 1, the Sony Walkman will be 20 years old. It's hard to imagine what urban life was before the Walkman. Sony first introduced portable transistor radios in 1957 and these proliferated rapidly. With an earphone (like this ), it was possible to carry mu

On 30 Years of Soundtracks to Life

Over at the BBC, a teenager named Scott compares an iPod to a Sony Walkman (read it here ). Scott is amused more than baffled by this obsolete technology, although it takes him a while to realize that a cassette tape can be flipped over. On July 1, the Sony Walkman will be 30 years old. It's hard to imagine what urban life was before the Walkman. Sony first introduced portable transistor radios in 1957 and these proliferated rapidly. With an earphone (like this ), it was possible to carry mu