Ahoy, Greetings from Barcelona. I came through here to visit with my son who is studying in Milan. The trip was interesting. I spent the first half of the week at the Smart Cities conference where the mood was buoyant and hopeful. Technology would save us from ourselves. Then I moved deeper into the city where technology is only just lapping at the edges of a riot of color and chaos. We walked through to the markets, the medieval streets, the quiet neighborhoods. We saw a jungle of fruit, an ocean of Vermouth, an army of happy yet discontented people chasing the night streets towards dawn. We heard politics as it was meant to be heard - through a bullhorn leading a march on a Saturday night. We saw the rich and the poor intermingle in one of the world’s greatest cities. We also had some really nice
Great Reads for November
Great Reads for November
Great Reads for November
Ahoy, Greetings from Barcelona. I came through here to visit with my son who is studying in Milan. The trip was interesting. I spent the first half of the week at the Smart Cities conference where the mood was buoyant and hopeful. Technology would save us from ourselves. Then I moved deeper into the city where technology is only just lapping at the edges of a riot of color and chaos. We walked through to the markets, the medieval streets, the quiet neighborhoods. We saw a jungle of fruit, an ocean of Vermouth, an army of happy yet discontented people chasing the night streets towards dawn. We heard politics as it was meant to be heard - through a bullhorn leading a march on a Saturday night. We saw the rich and the poor intermingle in one of the world’s greatest cities. We also had some really nice