We Can Be Heroes
On the recommendation of a good friend, I'm reading Dataclysm, a book that examines the predictive and descriptive value of aggregated individual personal online data for human nature more generally. In the introduction, author Christian Rudder notes that heretofore our history has been told in terms of the lives of larger than life characters and heroes. In a past where the means of recording history (clay tablets, paper, newsprint, celluloid, etc.) has had clearly limited