Armando Fox

Public libraries or Little Free Libraries®?

How Africa Works Long before colonization, Africa’s challenge was (and remains) low population density.

If I’ve told you the password, enter it below.

I’m writing this as a public service announcement to my friends and colleagues, especially those who are less obsessively technology-oriented than I am.

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, by William H.

I first read this book during high school, and it’s remained one of my favorites.

Greetings.

This entry in the Platform Studies series (which I’ve been enjoying quite a bit, mostly for its retro tech features) focuses less on the Kindle technology, which in itself is unremarkable, and more on the marketing of the product and how it’s affected rea…

Not long ago I got into an…interesting…conversation about machines that took away jobs.

Minitel: Welcome To the Internet In the 1980s, when a “consumer-facing Internet” was still over a decade away, France’s Minitel system introduced French citizens to much of what they’d be doing on the Internet years later.