At the retirement center, I sank into a chair opposite a man who once had a distinguished career. Knowing he wasn’t a loquacious individual, I started the conversation, asking how he’d spent his afternoon.  “Reading,” he replied.  “It passes the hours.” The previous day,

A new wave of innovation is hitting cyberspace which few of us know about and fewer will probably notice —  though the effect on everyday lives will be profound.  I write of Blockchain. Blockchain “…concatenates (or chains) cryptographically verified transactions into seq

Recently, I spent a terrible morning trying to keep up with various upgrades on my browser, on my e-books platform for Apple and for the site where I launch my blogs.  “Upgrade” is the most annoying word in the English language, in my opinion.  Demands for them never seem to sto