People ask me : when will the American coronavirus epidemic peak? Nobody knows. One major reason is a paucity of data, especially testing data. There are many reasons we don’t know what we need to know including: 1. The dismantling of the CDC’s international epidemiology capacity starting in 2017 2. What appears to have been […]
Text tonight, trouble tomorrow (11/3/10)
The Electronic Life The cyborg future is here. Last week I wrote on “Your kid’s new ‘favorite’ bed partner” – the cell phone. It now appears the era of “mobile computing” is creating mass immobility. Kids are texting like crazy at night – in bed. The Pew Memorial Trust survey I quoted had 82% of […]