My secret passion: board games from the 1960s.
Don't judge! But out of all the many wonders that the Internet has created, surely one of them is that I can play board games on their boards from the 1960s, thanks to eBay. The best of these is Acquire. In the Games Hall of Fame (yes, there is one) Acquire came out in 1962 and was released by 3M. It's technically about hotel chains on a grid-like board, but that's only a small part of the story. Like many good games, even when it's not your turn, the other player's action has a direct effect on you (as opposed Read more…
Shift Happens
I knew we were moving fast, but … This 4:46 video gives a pretty good overview of the profound changes that have happened in the last couple years. One interesting note: The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper, and a thousand times more powerful, and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965. Another: more video was uploaded to YouTube in the last two months than if ABC, NBC, and CBS had been airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948 (which was when ABC started broadcasting. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8?wmode=transparent] It’s all Read more…