Dennis C Merritt

This issue had more about Dan Simmon’s “Hyperion Trilogy” which drew it’s inspiration from Tom Ray’s experiments in getting intelligence to evolve in what he called a digital soup.

This was from the first newsletter.

It’s deep, and it’s light, and simply a lot of fun to read.

Nancy’s metal detecting finds of 2024.

This letter was published in the Greenfield Recorder, a wonderful forum for community opinions.

The Economist columnist, Johnson, recently wrote about the advantages of pencil and paper over computers for writing and note taking.

My cousin, Russell Merritt, recently passed away.

Let’s think about our trial system, and how it might apply to our democracy itself.

Given what I’d read about TikTok, the Chinese app that’s captured our country, that it’s silly videos of teenagers lip-syncing and dancing, I didn’t have much interest in it.