Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.
People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.
I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.
When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.
Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.
