Category: Technology

In 1960, Rod Serling wrote an episode of The Twilight Zone called The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. The setup is simple. A quiet, tree-lined American street. Then a shadow passes overhead and the power goes out. Cars won’t start. Radios go dead. A boy suggests it might be aliens. What follows is twenty…

I borrow a lot of ebooks from my public library. It feels like magic: tap a button, a book appears, and two weeks later it politely vanishes. No late fees, no driving, no dusty shelves (complimentary, not an insult). But here’s the part I didn’t really understand until I went down the rabbit hole: libraries…