I recently read Matt Richtel’s Silicon Valley thriller “Hooked,” and loved it. Matt is a tech reporter at The New York Times and a versatile talent — he even writes a comic strip under a pen name — and he really nailed a key element of modern computing culture: Addiction. It’s the feeling of being […]
Author: Dan Fost
Second Life will be bigger than the Internet
That was the startling assertion I heard from Philip Rosedale, CEO of San Francisco’s Linden Lab, producer of the virtual world Second Life, at a breakfast hosted by Conde Nast’s new business magazine Portfolio at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, Sept. 11. Yet despite such an outrageously hype-filled statement, Rosedale […]
What the world needs now
… is yet another blog. Realizing the lunacy of such an assertion, I’m going to be keeping this site pretty spare. But I will make occasional posts, hoping to satisfy a few goals: 1, to keep anyone who cares informed about what I’m working on; 2, to get the hang of this blogosphere thing; […]
Vanuatu: An Essay
Dan Fost’s literary narrative about a brother and sister’s journey to learn about their father’s World War II experience in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, complete with a trip to the top of an active volcano, appeared in the 2007 edition of Practice: New Writing + Art, a literary journal. Click here to […]