The Banana Peel Project

For an ingenious, entertaining, and fascinating introduction to communication, check out the 1953 short film A Communications Primer. Also, either before or after watching it, read Grand Text Auto’s review.

What is the resolution of the real world? How small are the smallest things in the Universe? Thousands of years ago, philosophers reasoned that there was a limit to how many times you could cut a given object in half; they called this smallest unit of matter an atom. Now, it has […]

Technology in every sense is at the core of The Banana Peel Project. But I’m not a technophile–far from it. Nor am I a technological determinist. New technologies are at least as dangerous as they are wonderful, as nuclear energy and genetic engineering still remind us. New technologies are inherently […]