"The United States will share a 2,000 mile border with a narcostate controlled by powerful transnational drug cartels that threaten the stability of Central and South America." - Robert Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography Finished this one yesterday. Also finished Mother of Storms by John Barnes same day. Started danah boyd. Hating it less than I expected to; taken as a gestalt rather than tasty tidbits, it seems to be the kind of grindingly obvious book that your average precocious 14-year-old wants her mom to read so she'll STFU and let her go to the mall. We'll see what I think when it's done.
Yeah, I figured you'd say that. What are the original thoughts to be had about social media? I met this guy a couple weeks ago, for example. That paper interested me, but also seemed like navel-gazing. I am often accused of being an old man in a young man's body, though, so don't take me too seriously.