Category Archives: Culture and Technology

Electronic Vehicle Battery as Home/Grid Power Backup

Posted on 2023 February 7 by Danny Choriki

Washington Post Climate Advice Columnist, Michael J. Coren, talks about how the battery in your car can become a part of the larger power grid solving short term and medium time frame problems. Technology already exists to connect your car … Continue reading →

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Music and the net: an unfulfilled promise

Posted on 2011 April 29 by Danny Choriki

The early proponents of the net promised many things. One of them was that talent would find audience without the “middleman”. It was the to be the end of the recording industry. Power to the recording artist. Record executives, up … Continue reading →

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Shoes to replace shoes: the barefoot running movement

Posted on 2010 March 9 by Danny Choriki

We have traveled an interesting technological circle in my adult life. When I started running in junior high school, we wore plain canvas shoes.  Like the Converse shoes that are now retro-hip.  By the mid to late 1970’s, a technology … Continue reading →

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Snow days, climate change and second order effects

Posted on 2010 February 26 by Danny Choriki

It is a snow day in New York City. Again. I am enjoying it but I did grow up in Montana. This one is a little closer to what I would call a snow day, i.e. a decent accumulation where … Continue reading →

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Journalism in the digital age: A changed landscape

Posted on 2009 December 9 by Danny Choriki

(Dateline Washington DC) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a workshop on December 1-2, 2009 titled “How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?” From a naive perspective, and indeed much of the public discussion on the issue has focused around … Continue reading →

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