The World Wired Web

Despite marketing imagery to the contrary, the “cloud” remains very much grounded in physical infrastructure, including unfathomable miles of wires.

By David A. J. Reynolds | July 24, 2019 | Environment, Media | Amazon, Bandwidth, Britain, China, Choke Points, Coaxial Cable, Communication, Content Providers, Data, Entertainment, Facebook, Fiber-Optic Cable, France, Google, Infrastructure, Internet, Internet Traffic, ISPs, Long-Distance, Railroads, Servers, Telecoms, Telegraph, Telephone, The Cloud, Undersea Cables, US, Wires

New Back-to-Landers Have More Information and More Obstacles

The most recent wave of back-to-landers, seeking sustainability, simplicity, and meaning, have a rich vein of resources; they also have bigger challenges.

By Nancy Matsumoto | July 5, 2017 | Agriculture, Economics, Environment, Family, Food, Society | Agriculture, Back to the Land, Back-to-Landers, Conservation, Eliot Coleman, Environmentalism, Family Farms, Farmer Shortage, Farming, France, Helen Nearing, Hippies, Jean-Martin Fortier, Maine, Market Gardening, Maude-Hélène Fortier, National Young Farmers Coalition, New Mexico, NYFC, Organic Farming, Quebec, Scott Nearing, Socialism, Start-ups

Culturing Boundaries: The Right to be Offline

France recently passed legislation that’s being billed as a “right to be offline.” What’s behind it, and can we learn something from the French conception of work/life boundaries?

By Lorenzo Migliorato | March 22, 2017 | Culture, Employment, Law, Well-Being | Email, France, Free Time, Internet, Kate Carruthers, relationships, Right to be Offline, Thierry de Baillon, Volkswagen, Work-Life Balance, Workplace Culture