E.M. Forster, best known for his novels Room With A View, Passage To India and Howard’s End, published a great short story in 1909 entitled The Machine Stops, an extremely prescient imagining of a future we may soon inhabit. Forty years before the advent of television, Forster foresaw computers and the worldwide internet, the demolition of the global environment, and the total collapse of technological society.
Posts published in “Day: October 15, 2013”
STRONG TYPHOON HEADING FOR JAPAN AND FUKUSHIMA NUKE SITE News-Asia/Agence France-Presse in Tokyo — A typhoon described as the “strongest in 10 years” was closing…
When I was a child, I wrote “I hate Daddy” on the flowered yellow wallpaper above my bed in my room in Baltimore. When my…
A PAIR of smash and grab car break-ins Sunday evening, one in central Boonville in front of the Hotel, one on Anderson Valley Way at…
This past December 22nd, more than a month before The Warbler began a 65-day occupation of a Ponderosa pine in the southern part of the…
The DA’s ace trial lawyer, Matt Hubley, has resigned. He has removed his services, himself and his handsome family to Sonoma County where he will…
For the past couple of months this column has been following a young man from the Mendocino Coast named William and his encounters with Mendocino…
My name is Doug McKenty and I have been volunteering at KZYX for the last seven years. I began as an engineer for my Tai…
The October 7th meeting of the KZYX Board of Directors took place at the Anderson Valley High School before a standing room only public audience.…
MENTAL HEALTH ACTIVISTS are appalled that the County's recent privatization of mental health services, always problematical in Mendocino County, seems to have eliminated mental health…