A childhood friend of mine got an iPod in 2004. It was a third generation model with a mind boggling 40 gigabyte hard drive. This was incredible at the time – I had just gotten my first MP3 player with very modest 128MB of storage, a NAPA PA28. Despite its minuscule storage size, it was still exciting to use at a time when portable CD players still reigned supreme. But

The digital Dark Age The October Archive.org attack shook me in a bad way. For a while now I’ve been increasingly convinced that in the not-too-distant-future we will be referring to the period of the early 21st century as a digital dark age. Not just because of the seemingly unstoppable rise of anti-intellectual, anti-science fascist movements around the world that use the internet to spread like wildfire, but also due